Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 11:20:49 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> Cc: "David E. Cross" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Johan Larsson <gozer@ludd.luth.se>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Rob Nelson <rob@mag-net.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 3com 3c509 card Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971216111408.182B-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199712161456.IAA01047@kai.communique.net>
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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 | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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