Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 19:23:33 +0200 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: FreeBSD-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Recommendation for a GOOD 100 MBit Ethernet card wanted Message-ID: <19990905192333.A34635@internal>
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I am looking for a 100MBit Ethernet card for use with 3.2-STABLE which does perform better than the "Intel EtherExpress(TM) PRO/100 PC C". Currently, I am using this one with the xe driver, but performance is rather bad (about 1.2 MBytes/sec). According to if_xe.c, this is due to the way the card is handled by the driver: * Note that the crappy PIO used to get packets on and off the card means that * you will spend a lot of time in this routine -- I can get my P150 to spend * 90% of its time servicing interrupts if I really hammer the network. Could * fix this, but then you'd start dropping/losing packets. The moral of this * story? If you want good network performance _and_ some cycles left over to * get your work done, don't buy a Xircom card. Or convince them to tell me * how to do memory-mapped I/O :) So what do people recommend here? Thanks, -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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