From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 1 15:53:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA07952 for current-outgoing; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 15:53:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA07748 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 15:52:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA26430; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 00:51:37 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA05701; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 00:51:37 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id AAA24119; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 00:38:16 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611012338.AAA24119@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 3c590 problem To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 00:38:16 +0100 (MET) Cc: kdupuis@dcs.stu.rpi.edu (Kenneth J. Dupuis) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Kenneth J. Dupuis" at "Nov 1, 96 05:46:01 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Kenneth J. Dupuis wrote: > > (I'm not sure what makes you think that a '590 is the only card you can > > use to sustain that sort of throughput; you could do it with an NE2000...) > > There are multiple cards in the machine, and that kind of traffic > multiplied will kill an ISA bus. Peaks of 1MB/sec are quite common. Still no justification for the 3Com one. Re-read Michael's mail: he suggested you using a DEC-2104[01] based card. In case you don't know, they are also PCI parts. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)