Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 11:53:55 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 100Mbit ethernet card comparision Message-ID: <4.1.19990208115114.0457c800@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <19990208145325.A8384@cons.org>
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At 02:53 PM 2/8/99 +0100, Martin Cracauer wrote: >I just had three 100MBit/sec ethernet cards in reach and though I >could do a little experimenting: > >Operating Systems: >FreeBSD: FreeBSD-current from Jan, 22, 1999 (before 4.0 branch) >Linux: 2.2.0-pre9, userland mostly Debian-1.3.1 > >Ethernet cards: >de - DEC 21140 >fxp - Intel 82558 >rl - Realtek 8139 [SNIP] >OS Card MioByte/sec %user %sys %interrupt >---------------------------------------------------------- >Linux de 10.93-10.96 3 26-28 - >FreeBSD de 10.70-10.72 3 29-31 4-5 >FreeBSD fxp 10.66-10.67 3 25-28 5-6 >FreeBSD rl 10.55-10.56 3 28-31 14-16 >Linux rl 10.85-11.14 3 28-30 - >Linux fxp doesn't work Very interesting. I'm surprised that there is so little difference between the cards! I'd been given to understand that the fxp driver was significantly more efficient than de or especially rl, but it seems not to matter in practice. Maybe I should buy more of those cheap rl cards. --Brett "Rules? This is the Internet." -- Dan Gillmor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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