From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 15 12:52:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D26D37BAC0 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 12:52:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA01346; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 12:53:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200003152053.MAA01346@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "yramin" Cc: "Howard Leadmon " , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best NIC for FBSD (was: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Mar 2000 12:17:02 PST." <200003152017.MAA19573@www.redshift.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 12:53:43 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > fxp0: The Intel driver is by far the highest preformance model, > beats the 3com (second best) hands down with much lower CPU > overhead. Do you actually have any numbers to quantify this? There's nothing in the driver architecture nor any of my testing that would suggest this is actually the case at this point. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message