From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 25 12:17:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA04886 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:17:20 -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 MAA04857 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:17:06 -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 MAA20782; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:14:58 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802252014.MAA20782@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Dan Janowski cc: freebsd@isvara.net, Karl Denninger , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: "Best" Fast Ethernet Card In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Feb 1998 15:08:33 EST." <34F47A40.CE76ADE7@3skel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:14:57 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > freebsd@isvara.net wrote: > > > 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. > > How does it compare to the Intel EtherExpress Pro 100B? I should have mentioned in my previous message; we have one of each available for testing here, and two effectively identical systems that we can put them in. If someone cares to nominate a benchmark procedure for this sort of thing, I can schedule some time to run it. -- \\ 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