From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 31 18:33:16 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id SAA04719 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 18:33:16 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA04713 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 18:33:13 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.34]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id SAA23721; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 18:32:04 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id SAA22213; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 18:34:02 -0700 Message-Id: <199509010134.SAA22213@corbin.Root.COM> To: Paul Traina cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: novell ne2000 cards with FreeBSD...opinions? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 31 Aug 95 18:04:33 PDT." <199509010104.SAA00383@precipice.shockwave.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 18:34:01 -0700 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >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