Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 03:05:47 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Daniel Malament <danielm@j51.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: various Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911070302250.10573-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199911071032.FAA13170@j51.com>
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On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Daniel Malament wrote: > I have a number of questions I've been building up... > > 1) I have a 2.2.8 box on which I've tried two nics: a generic > NE2000-compatible PCI (ed1) and a 3com 3c509 ISA (ep0). For comparison, I > transferred 600M of files to another machine on the network (the only > other one up right now, in fact). It took half an hour with the PCI. > (Average of 333 KB/s.) With the 3Com, I didn't let it finish because it > was giving me transfer rates of 30K/sec!!! Anybody know why I'm getting > such slow performance out of the 3com? Are all ISA nics this slow? For > that matter, how much bandwidth can one expect a card to use in general? > What prevents getting the full 10MB? Buffer delays? You should be able to get close to 10Mb/sec on an NE2000 if you have a pentium200 or more.. I suspect the card doing 30KB/sec is configured for the wrong interrupt.. (check systat -vmstat to se if it's generating any interrrupts) > > 2) Is there any particular difference in performance between an internal > modem and an external, provided the serial port has a 16550A UART? no > > 3) What's the current status of FreeBSD's USB support? various simple devices work (e.g keyboard, mouse.. more complicated devices are being 'improved'. > > 4) Does FreeBSD fully support 100MB Ethernet? As of what version? yes since about 2.1 > > 5) Should I not have crossposted this? :) > > Thanks, > Dan > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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