From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 25 12:49:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA13375 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:49:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from aaka.3skel.com (aaka.3skel.com [207.240.212.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA13314 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:48:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danj@3skel.com) Received: from fnur.3skel.com (fnur.3skel.com [192.168.0.8]) by aaka.3skel.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with ESMTP id PAA12867; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 15:48:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from 3skel.com (localhost.3skel.com [127.0.0.1]) by fnur.3skel.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with ESMTP id PAA25465; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 15:48:44 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <34F483AB.85A6D713@3skel.com> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 15:48:43 -0500 From: Dan Janowski Organization: Triskelion Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith CC: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Best" Fast Ethernet Card References: <199802252014.MAA20782@dingo.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith wrote: > > 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. Yikes. UDP Transmit to nowhere? Will that work for transmit speed? I guess the question is how to test receive? -- danj@3skel.com Dan Janowski Triskelion Systems, Inc. Bronx, NY To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message