Date: Fri, 5 Jan 96 12:56:39 +0100 From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What choice of 100 mbps Ethernet boards? Message-ID: <9601051156.AA25157@wavehh.hanse.de> References: <199601041044.LAA00341@allegro.lemis.de> <Pine.BSF.3.91.960104130000.212j-100000@cabal.io.org>
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taob@io.ORG (Brian Tao) wrote: >On Thu, 4 Jan 1996, Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> I'm still working on the Installation book (anybody who's interested, >> *please* review!), and it occurred to me that there's little direction >> in choosing 100 mbps network boards. Can anybody suggest something >> that works well? > I just picked up five SMC 9332 PCI controllers (built around the >DEC21140) in December and they worked right out of the box with our >ASUS P55TP4XEG motherboards. Plugged one of them into a spare 100Mbps >port on our etherswitch and was able to do the OS installation without >a hiccup. I've had a tiny bit of trouble with the cards when plugged >into a 10-Mbps switch, but I'll post about that separately. Could someone drop me a note what performance I can expect? I'm considering setting up a tiny (IP-only) subnet with 100mbps for the machines that are capable and I want to use a FreeBSD machine as a hub. I'd like to have some data about maximum troughput and the CPU cycles used on the router. Thanks for any data. Happy Hacking Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de> - Fax +49 40 522 85 36 BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany - No NeXTMail anymore, please. Copyright 1995. Redistribution via Microsoft Network is prohibited
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