From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 16 09:22:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA11001 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 09:22:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA10985 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 09:21:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (mail.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.21]) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA01172; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 11:20:50 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 11:20:49 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Jacques Vidrine cc: "David E. Cross" , Mike Smith , Johan Larsson , Greg Lehey , Rob Nelson , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: 3com 3c509 card In-Reply-To: <199712161456.IAA01047@kai.communique.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Jacques Vidrine wrote: > > I'll second that ... I've used FreeBSD for 3 years, and used almost > exclusively 3COM 3c509 cards for 10BaseT. I'd guess that we have at > least 3 dozen boxes running with these cards, and they perform well. > > We starting using the 3COM cards after having bad luck with NE2000 > clone cards. *shrug* > > Just wanted to point out that Your Mileage May Vary. Here's my (probably useless, but oh well) $0.02. I've got 2 systems here; one's my Cyrix 6x86 166, which presently has a 3C905 card locked in 10 Mbps mode, and the other's my friend's 486 SX33, which has my 3C509 in it. Testing a quick ftp transfer here... Downloading to the 486, I have (polled from top): 3537 fullermd 3 0 480K 636K ttyin 0:16 68.66% 53.37% ftp for this: ftp> get long.file local: long.file remote: long.file 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'long.file' (7964976 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. 7964976 bytes received in 17.26 seconds (450.56 Kbytes/s) ftp> the 486 is a slow computer, so most transfers will prob be a fair bit faster. Again, Your Mileage May Vary *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*