From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 25 12:09:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA03032 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:09:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA02953 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:09:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA20744; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:05:42 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802252005.MAA20744@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: freebsd@isvara.net cc: Karl Denninger , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: "Best" Fast Ethernet Card In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:58:20 GMT." <34F477DC.41FD810D@challenge.isvara.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:05:40 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Low system overhead is the key here. I'm starting to see things that look a > > lot like system CPU starvation with the SMC Etherpower 10/100s here on some > > of our fileservers. > > The recently released 3com Fast Etherink XL (rev B) 3C905B NIC is the best money > can buy (apart from server cards costing upwards of 250UKP). > It has lower CPU usage than any other card, helping it to give the fastest > performance. Uh, FTL has one of these. It seems to work just fine, but I would say that at least for FreeBSD the Intel EtherExpress Pro 100B still gives you the best throughput:overhead ratio. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message