Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 14:30:06 -0500 From: Benjamin Greenwald <beng@lcs.mit.edu> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: okay, I WILL get out and help push Message-ID: <199803201930.OAA27728@shangri-la.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Mar 1998 20:03:49 %2B0100." <19980320200349.19485@follo.net>
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> On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 10:44:51AM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > >>> 2) I'm open to suggestions for a cheap Plug'n'Pray PCI Ethernet > >>> card that I can pick up locally (CompUSA/Computer City). (PNP is > >>> now supported in stable, yes?) > >> > >> Anything from 3COM or SMC should do the trick. > > > > I've had moderate sucess with my 3Com 3C905. It's not a great card, > > but it works decently, at least at 10 Mbit. > > I'm going to disagree here. It is not a great _driver_, but as far as > I've been able to tell, it actually is a great card. The 590/595 are > OK cards, the 900/905 are great cards. They do full scather/gather > DMA (and IIRC checksumming), leaving them open for a zero-copy > implementation. The problem is that the driver only use them in > 'compatibility mode', which doesn't exploit _anything_ - driving it at > about the efficiency-level of an NE2000. I'm going to agree with Eivind... under Win NT the 3C905 rocks. It's only major drawback is that it doesn't have a harward multicast filter (it has a single bit --- accept multicast/don't). So if you are going to go high-end and use multicast a lot, the Intel 10/100 Pro/B/+ is a better choice. As to the driver issue, I've just begun developing a new vx driver which will use the advanced features of the Boomerang cards(3C90?), and stay compatible with Vortex (3C59?). -Ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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