Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 08:40:28 +0300 From: Alex <alex@dynaweb.ru> To: FreeBSD hackers list <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [hackers] Re: Realtek Message-ID: <3E828ECC.1040903@dynaweb.ru> References: <007c01c2e3ef$3483d8a0$0229c80a@abtec412> <20030306145022.GA31433@krion> <16002.16342.476020.510769@canoe.velocet.net>
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Hi Kirill! That's a real myth about Realtek :0) We're using them on all our FreeBSD machines for over 5 years without any problems. Driver is working fine. Speed and reliability is OK. So I for one can even offer to choose them instead of 3COM as in Russia you can easily get 2 from the 3 3COM cards that is not 3COM indeed :0) Not so for cheap Realteks :0) Good luck David Gilbert wrote: >>>>>>"Kirill" == Kirill Ponomarew <ponomarew@oberon.net> writes: >>>>>> >>>>>> > >Kirill> Hi, On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:46:43AM -0300, Pablo Morales >Kirill> wrote: > > > >>>Someone said that the realtek 8029 and 8139 ethernet cards are the >>>worst cards ever made. My boss is planning to make a great buy of >>>this cards for a communication project ( the reasons is obius, the >>>cost of this cards ) I'm trying to persuade him to by 3com ethernet >>>cards, but I need technical information to demostrate him that it's >>>not a good inversion to buy those kind of cards. >>> >>>Can someone give a good explanation of that or at least where can I >>>find information about it? >>> >>> > >Kirill> please read comments in /usr/src/sys/pci/if_rl.c > >It's worth noting that there's a scale to all this. The driver >comments imply that the card will push 100Mb if you have enough power >in the CPU ... defined as 400Mhz. Given the price of this card >... and the fact that less-than-400Mhz CPU's are rather rare, and that >this is only an issue for high bandwidth applications ... the rl cards >might fit for you. > >We use them extensively in workstations... even diskless. The reason >being that with modern processors, they perform adequately ... and >although they take up extra CPU ... CPUs are rather under-utilized >resources in most workstations. > >Dave. > > >
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