From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Mar 29 9:26:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from tp.databus.com (p72-186.acedsl.com [66.114.72.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DA0D37B404 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 09:26:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from barney@localhost) by tp.databus.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2THQLl25227; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:26:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from barney) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:26:21 -0500 From: Barney Wolff To: Herve Quiroz Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD PCnet PCI II vs Realtek RTL8139 Message-ID: <20020329122621.A24817@tp.databus.com> References: <20020328141504.U34885-100000@puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020328141504.U34885-100000@puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr>; from herve.quiroz@esil.univ-mrs.fr on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 02:28:34PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The 8139 seems to be much reviled, but I think that may be an obsolete opinion. I have an 8139-based card in a K6-3/400 that will easily pass >10MBytes/sec in either direction without much load on the cpu. There really are not a whole lot of situations that demand better performance than that, and those that do can certainly afford a little more for the card. I got 3 of them as a bonus along with a 16-port switch for $129 some time last year. -- Barney Wolff I never met a computer I didn't like. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message