Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 12:17:02 -0800 From: "yramin" <yramin@redshift.com> To: "Howard Leadmon <howardl@account.abs.net>" <howardl@account.abs.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best NIC for FBSD (was: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..) Message-ID: <200003152017.MAA19573@www.redshift.com>
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This message is in MIME format. -------19569-----WWW-Mail-2.01----- Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In my expierience, these drivers/cards work the best: ed0: For ISA anything, works like a charm rl0: The Realtek driver is rather fast, useful with those $10 PCI NICs fxp0: The Intel driver is by far the highest preformance model, beats the 3com (second best) hands down with much lower CPU overhead. Good cards (Intel server adapters) are expensive though. Usualy you can get away by getting cheapy models (still pricy). Thats what I've found, nothing official here. Yann > > I will attest to that, as I have several Solaris-x86 machines, some on > 2.6. and some on 2.7, all running the DEC cards in 100T-FDX mode like a > champ. As some are news servers, they run 20-30mpbs constantly almost > 24/7 without a hitch, so they work well under Solaris. Guess it was > dumb to assume they would work as well on FBSD, but I had hoped. I have > piles of the DEC cards around. > > I wonder what really has the best driver under FBSD, as far as reliability > and performance, and yes I also want 100T-FDX as my entire network is > interconnected with Cisco Catalyst Switches. I got the inside scoop on > the DEC cards for Solaris from some Sun engineers. Has anyone actually > ever rated/tested the various NIC's for FBSD?? > > -Howard > > > > That's not spurprising. When I tried it, Solaris 2.6 x86 didn't support > > full-duplex 100Base-TX on very many devices. The DEC tulip cards were one of > > the few that had drivers that supported full-duplex. > > > > Charles > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Howard Leadmon [mailto:howardl@account.abs.net] > > Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 4:24 PM > > To: Alfred Perlstein > > Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT.. > > > > ... > > > > I used the DEC based cards as I had seen so many people raving > > about them, and at least under Solaris they claim the DEC tulip based > > boards are the hot ticket. > > > > ... > > > > > --- > Howard Leadmon - howardl@abs.net - http://www.abs.net > ABSnet Internet Services - Phone: 410-361-8160 - FAX: 410-361-8162 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > -------19569-----WWW-Mail-2.01----- -------19569-----WWW-Mail-2.01------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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