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Date:      Thu, 20 Nov 1997 09:03:33 -0800 (PST)
From:      Kwoody <kwoody@citytel.net>
To:        Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is NE2000 network card OK?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.971120085705.19949B-100000@mybsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.971120095837.14308H-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>

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On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Steve Hovey wrote:

> > How slow do you consider slow? I would think on a small network that a 
> > card running ne2000 would be adequate for most purposes.
> > 
> 
> I ran ne2000s till I saw the thru put difference I got from intels
> therexpress cards - the price difference was slight compared to the
> thruput - I mean I actually had to recompile my kernels to increase buffer
> space (nmbclusters)

I'm fairly happy with the ne2000's here at home. I only run 2 machines 
with them (though I do have a 3/60 also hooked up too) so for me 
performence is not really in issue.

Though it might be intesting to see what kind of throughput I do get from 
this little network. And one can get them to work better by increasing 
the nbccluster in the kernel? (just want an excuse to recompile it again! :))

Anything in FBSD that I can use to measure network performence? (aside 
from acutually buying a network monitor)

thanks!
Keith



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