From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Jan 21 07:22:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA19916 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 07:22:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA19906 Sun, 21 Jan 1996 07:21:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id QAA07461; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 16:21:54 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id QAA06358; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 16:21:52 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id QAA25643; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 16:17:15 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601211517.QAA25643@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD-current Proxy Server in our company (vs. Sun) To: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 16:17:14 +0100 (MET) Cc: jmb@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Andreas Klemm" at Jan 21, 96 04:19:08 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Andreas Klemm wrote: > > > either way a 3C509 MAY not be good enough. the driver in 1.1.5.1 > > lost interrupts occasionally. i dont know if this has been fixed or not. > > So what other 10MBit TP ethernet card (PCI or ISA) would > be recommended ? For ISA, the beloved SMC 8013 card seems to be the overall best choice. The Lance chips are also fine (Am7990-based boards), they are heavily used in many workstations. PC NIC's with them are rather rare. For PCI, the DEC 2104X-based cards are certainly the first choice, or the 3c590 with the `vx' driver pulled out of -current. See my other mail. I've heard that the 3c595 doesn't run well yet (it's a 10/100 Mbit/s board). I would generally avoid NE1000, NE2000, 3C503, 3C509 for heavy-loaded servers. Note that not all 8013 clones are of good quality. -- 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. ;-)