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From: Leonard Chua <lenc@earth.infinetconsulting.com>
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Matt Thomas <matt@lkg.dec.com>, jc@irbs.com
Subject: SMC EtherPower 10/100 (SMC9332BDT, DEC21140A)
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Hi all,
   considering the de driver support for the "new" 21140A chip is kinda
   in BETA still, here's a quick report:

   We tested two computers with the abovesaid NICs in an isolated network.
   In between was a 3Com intelligent (non-passive) 100BaseTX hub.

   The OS used was FreeBSD 2.2 with the de patch obtained from 
   ftp://ftp.irbs.com/pub/FreeBSD.

   I used netperf with the default scripts, as well as my own little 
   bandwidth testing program (similar to tcpblast). 
   We acheived a maximum performance of 82Mbits/sec using packet and buffer 
   sizes of 16384bytes. (With various packet and buffer sizes, performance 
   varied quite a bit, as expected).
  
   We'll be upgrading to 100BaseTX soon, so I'll keep everyone updated
   of any problems (cross my fingers). :)

Cheers.
Len.