Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 09:00:30 -0600 From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> To: Martin Stiemerling <Martin.Stiemerling@ccrle.nec.de> Cc: David Smithson <david-s@foundation-i.com>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gigabit for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011210090030.A11879@luke.immure.com> In-Reply-To: <13850000.1007975323@elgar>; from Martin.Stiemerling@ccrle.nec.de on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:08:43AM %2B0100 References: <4FB6DCB8FA515F49AAE50827A60D42CD862B0F@mail-01.foundation-i.com <4FB6DCB8FA515F49AAE50827A60D42CD862B0F@mail-01.foundation-i.com> <13850000.1007975323@elgar>
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I am running two FreeBSD (4.4-stable) systems here with the following GigE cards: Linksys EG1064 SMC 9462TX They both use the National Semiconductor chip and are supported by the nge driver. Both are in dual Athlon systems (Tyan S2460 MBs), connected to a Linksys EG0008 GigE switch, and are working well. I am experiencing three relatively small issues: 1. The SMC card seems to take a couple of tries to get the link up. I usually get several messages at boot time that the gigabit link is up from the driver, so it appears that it comes up put quickly drops one or more times before finally staying up (I have never seen it drop once the system is running). 2. The Linksys card appears to be about 25% slower than the SMC card. With netperf I get up to 85 MB/s with the SMC card and only 65 MB/s with the SMC. Note that the Linksys card is in the faster of the two systems (1.533 GHz CPUs vs. 1.2 GHz for the SMC card's CPUs). 3. If I statically link the driver in the kernel it disrupts my sound card. This doesn't happen if I dynamically load the driver. However, all of these are easily ignored or worked around in my environment. Bob On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:08:43AM +0100, Martin Stiemerling wrote: > D-LINK DGE500-SX works good! > > > --On Freitag, Dezember 07, 2001 10:22:44 -0800 David Smithson > <david-s@foundation-i.com> wrote: > > > Hi all. Does anyone know of a good stable 1000baseTX gigabit network > > adapter that works well with FreeBSD? I have this Netgear adapter that > > seems to have problems. Help is -- of course -- appreciated. Thanks. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message -- Bob Willcox Boucher's Observation: bob@vieo.com He who blows his own horn always plays the music Austin, TX several octaves higher than originally written. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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