Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 15:23:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ben <ben@edelweb.fr> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Adept <adept@cep.yale.edu>, Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, William Bulley <web@merit.edu>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3C589 performance (was Re: obtaining 3COM 3C589C PC-CARDs ) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.971015152201.12107D-100000@ben.edelweb.fr> In-Reply-To: <199710151304.WAA00569@word.smith.net.au>
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On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Mike Smith wrote: > > I 've done some benchmarking and I'm getting on my Thinkpad 701C something > > like 700K/sec with my 3C589B. > > On a silent network, their throughput is fine. Unfortunately, it > appears that the '589 suffers from similar problems to other 3Com cards > on networks with other traffic; I see transfers out of this system as > slow as 50K/sec on a lightly to moderately loaded network. Others have > reported similar experiences with other cards (3C509, 3C59x, 3C90x). I have had this problem before--what you have to make sure ofis: 1) The cards aren't sharing interrupts 2) You aren't using more than one link state for the card at a time (i.e. -link0 link1 -link2) Ben. ____ Ben Samman.................................................ben@edelweb.fr Paris, France Illudium Q36 Explosive Space Modulator
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