Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 10:51:57 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG, jeff@tad.cetlink.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TCP Tuning? Message-ID: <199603061751.KAA11337@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199603061147.MAA08172@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Mar 6, 96 12:47:36 pm
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> > > Get a better ethernet card... the ne2k's have a poor performance in > > > general because they don't have any on-card RAM to store packets. Get > > > either a SMC card or one of the DEC DC21040 based cards. > > Just for the records... There are PCI-based ne2000 clones, which > sell for approx US$60 here. Programmed I/O on the PCI bus should not be > slow at all. Unless you compare it to DMA I/O on the same bus... 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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