From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 25 16:00:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00534 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 16:00:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from isvara.net (root@[130.88.148.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00478 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 15:59:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@challenge.isvara.net) Received: from challenge.isvara.net ([130.88.66.5]) by isvara.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA28704 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 23:59:49 GMT Message-ID: <34F4B048.2E75FAA5@challenge.isvara.net> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 23:59:04 +0000 From: freebsd@isvara.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: "Best" Fast Ethernet Card References: <19980225125126.05029@mcs.net> <34F477DC.41FD810D@challenge.isvara.net> <34F47A40.CE76ADE7@3skel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan Janowski 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? It is faster than it, and uses less processor bandwidth. Check the 3com site. One thing which would certainly help, is drivers to utilize the new features of the card (eg. full PCI bus-master scatter-gather lists). Thanks, Dan _____________________________________ Daniel J Blueman BSc Computation, UMIST, Manchester Email: blue@challenge.isvara.net Web: http://www.challenge.isvara.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message