From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jul 10 16:56:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from portnoy.lbl.gov (portnoy.lbl.gov [131.243.2.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF5E537B865 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:56:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jin@portnoy.lbl.gov) Received: (from jin@localhost) by portnoy.lbl.gov (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e6ANuGk18566; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:56:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:56:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Jin Guojun (DSD staff) Message-Id: <200007102356.e6ANuGk18566@portnoy.lbl.gov> To: jhartley@netrail.net, mjacob@feral.com Subject: Re: SysKonnect and Intel gig boards Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matthew Jacob Wrote: > Don't use the wx driven EEPRO-1000 from 4.0 (wait for the 4.1 release which > will have some bug fixes). > > I can't speak about SysKonnect. The Tigon-II based NetGear cards have been > peachy. Just more info.: SysKonnect and Intel EEPRO-1000 have the similar pricey, but they work well. The Tigon-II based NetGear card is cheaper, but has a couple of drawback: (1) the driver under FreeBSD up/down a couple of times at boottime, this causes NFS mount failure during boot. It is not a big deal. I fixed it in rc.local with a line: df | grep $mymount_point || mount -a (2) chewing significant CPU: (tested on completely idle machines) 500 MHz P-III + single NetGear A620 I/O takes 47% CPU time 750 MHz AMD K7 + single NetGear A620 I/O takes less 10% CPU 500 MHz P-III + single SysKonnect I/O takes less 5% CPU If you have a high end machine, it is probably not a big issue. The driver chews CPU on both FreeBSD and Linux; so it is driver issue, but O.S. Hopefully, the newer driver will fix the problem. -Jin > On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Jeff Hartley wrote: > > > Anyone have any experience (good/bad/indifferent) with the Intel GigSX > > boards, or the SysKonnect dual-port GigSX boards, under 4.0-RELEASE? I'm in > > need of quad-gig boxes, and I'm reluctant to stick with 3COM, based on an > > unsatisfactory failure rate in the past. Horror stories or blessings, > > anyone? I did notice that SysKonnect seems to be friendlier with the > > developer community than Intel (go figure). > > > > Thanks, > > -Jeff Hartley To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message