Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 14:26:38 -0500 From: "Justin W. Pauler" <jwpauler@jwpages.com> To: <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Emmanuel Gravel" <egravel@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: Increasing network performance Message-ID: <01c015dc$e13db540$0250400a@WINNT01>
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If you are looking for a general NIC that is good quality and has good
speed, maybe just try a generic NE2000 NIC. I have two NE2000's in my
machine:
Pentium 66mhz
20MB RAM
FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE
They took a little bit of tweaking in the kernel, to get the interrupt/io
port right, but after I did they run very smoothly. I have one NIC connected
to all the printers in my house and one NIC connected to all the machines. I
get excellent speeds across both sides and haven't had a hiccup yet.
These two btw are the following:
ed0 at port 0x300-0x31f iomem 0xd8000 irq 3 on isa0
ed0: address 00:40:05:14:c7:2c, type NE2000 (16 bit)
They are both just a simple 16 bit card, but I get excellent transfer rates.
Justin W. Pauler
-----Original Message-----
From: Emmanuel Gravel <egravel@earthlink.net>
To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Sunday, September 03, 2000 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: Increasing network performance
>Ah! I knew there were driver issues, but didn't think it would be that bad.
>Which NIC's would best suit my needs (decent performance, dual homed,
>P90 CPU, and not too expensive)?
>
>Thanks!
>
>At 01:58 AM 9/3/00 -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
>>On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Emmanuel Gravel wrote:
>>> Does anyone know where I should look to get my box to react a little
>>> more sanely? If there's anything else you want to know just ask :)
>>
>>3c509s are a wee bit CPU hungry. The driver still has a few issues that
>>make the cards a poor choice for performance under FreeBSD.
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