From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 24 11:59:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from et-gw.etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56A2A37B71B for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 11:59:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys.etinc.com (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by et-gw.etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA05136; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 15:00:21 GMT (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010324151516.03bc6d60@mail.etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 15:17:03 -0500 To: , Richard Hodges From: Dennis Subject: Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2. Cc: Luigi Rizzo , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 02:45 PM 03/24/2001, scanner@jurai.net wrote: >On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Richard Hodges wrote: > > > Thanks for the tip on the XL driver. Over the years, I have seen > > many questions about which driver/card was the best, and all the > > answers were pretty vague, or suggested that Intel had the edge. > > Yes. It's currently my understanding that the xl driver is indeed >as reliable and as fast as the fxp. I know what your saying though. The >fxp has been touted as the fastest. Years ago it was the de driver for DEC >cards that was the screamer, then it became the fxp, but the xl driver is >just as fast. thats not true at all. We have traced many of our heavily loaded customers problems to the XL driver. Replacing them with intels solved the problems. But for general use you are probably correct. Db To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message