From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 5 06:06:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA06440 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 06:06:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (ki1.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE [160.45.24.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA06397 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 06:05:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.1.28.1) from mail.hanse.de (134.100.239.2) with smtp id ; Fri, 5 Jan 96 15:03 MET Received: from wavehh.UUCP by mail.hanse.de with UUCP for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org id ; Fri, 5 Jan 96 15:03 MET Received: by wavehh.hanse.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA25157; Fri, 5 Jan 96 12:56:39 +0100 Date: Fri, 5 Jan 96 12:56:39 +0100 From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Message-Id: <9601051156.AA25157@wavehh.hanse.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What choice of 100 mbps Ethernet boards? References: <199601041044.LAA00341@allegro.lemis.de> Reply-To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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 - Fax +49 40 522 85 36 BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany - No NeXTMail anymore, please. Copyright 1995. Redistribution via Microsoft Network is prohibited