From owner-freebsd-net Sun Sep 3 12:26:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from addr2.addr.com (addr.com [209.249.147.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D11B37B424 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 12:26:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from WINNT01 (drnet.fais.net [208.249.141.31]) by addr2.addr.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id MAA91994; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 12:31:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwpauler@jwpages.com) From: "Justin W. Pauler" To: , "Emmanuel Gravel" Subject: Re: Increasing network performance Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 14:26:38 -0500 Message-ID: <01c015dc$e13db540$0250400a@WINNT01> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To: 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. > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message