Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 18:34:01 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: novell ne2000 cards with FreeBSD...opinions? Message-ID: <199509010134.SAA22213@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 31 Aug 95 18:04:33 PDT." <199509010104.SAA00383@precipice.shockwave.com>
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>I'm a western digital biggot, and have historically stayed away from >NE2000 cards, but I have a need to put together about 10 systems for >some emergency radio work I'm doing and I wanted to get some newer >opinions on the cards and the driver state, given the price difference >between the two designs. > >Is the ed/NE2000 flavor of the driver reliable now? Overruns? It's reliable. It has been for more than a year. >What kind of performance can I expect to see on a NE2000 vs a 16 bit SMC card >when running FreeBSD? > >e.g. would you dare build a diskless NFS client with a NE2000 clone? It will require twice the CPU, and in some extreme cases, this might be enough to cause it to drop a packet. ...but normally it will work fine. -DG
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