From owner-freebsd-net Sun Sep 3 11:45:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (CDR27-115.accesscable.net [24.138.27.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDCE437B626 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 11:45:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA09354; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 15:44:57 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 15:44:57 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Emmanuel Gravel Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing network performance In-Reply-To: <200009030607.XAA17067@avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Emmanuel Gravel wrote: > Ah! I knew there were driver issues, but didn't think it would be that bad. > Which NIC's would best suit my needs (decent performance, dual homed, > P90 CPU, and not too expensive)? I won't touch anything by the Intel EtherExpress Pro's ... > > Thanks! > > At 01:58 AM 9/3/00 -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > >On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Emmanuel Gravel wrote: > >> Does anyone know where I should look to get my box to react a little > >> more sanely? If there's anything else you want to know just ask :) > > > >3c509s are a wee bit CPU hungry. The driver still has a few issues that > >make the cards a poor choice for performance under FreeBSD. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message