From owner-freebsd-net Wed Sep 1 7:24:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ftf.dk (mail.ftf.net [129.142.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9487015493 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 07:24:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from regnauld@ftf.net) Received: from ns.int.ftf.net (fw2.ftf.dk [192.168.1.2] (may be forged)) by mail.ftf.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3/gw-ftf-1.2) with ESMTP id QAA14727; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 16:20:40 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.ftf.dk: Host fw2.ftf.dk [192.168.1.2] (may be forged) claimed to be ns.int.ftf.net Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by ns.int.ftf.net (8.9.2/8.9.3) id QAA43020; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 16:23:24 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19990901162323.32556@ns.int.ftf.net> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 16:23:23 +0200 From: Phil Regnauld To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Testing gigabit NIC/ switches and 3C985B-SX support References: <19990901160814.23604@ns.int.ftf.net> <14285.13363.795038.838208@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <14285.13363.795038.838208@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from Andrew Gallatin on Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:15:00AM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386 Organization: FTFnet Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andrew Gallatin writes: > > These should be supported using the tigon driver (if_ti). Yes indeed, thanks -- I have just seen the lines in LINT. > You can expect about 2-3x this level of performance from FreeBSD. Perhaps even > more if you can use "jumbo" (aka 9000 byte) frames. Does this 3Com > 9300 SSII switch support jumbo frames? How do I find that out ? And would the numbers (132 Mbit/s) be tied to the OS (NT) or the driver ? -- Division by Zero error -- multiplying by zero to recover. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message