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Date:      Sun, 3 Sep 2000 22:26:25 +0200
From:      "Mustafa N. Deeb" <mustafa@palnet.com>
To:        "Justin W. Pauler" <jwpauler@jwpages.com>, <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Emmanuel Gravel" <egravel@earthlink.net>
Subject:   Re: Increasing network performance
Message-ID:  <004501c015e5$3c2dc320$0a1174c0@palnet.com>
References:  <01c015dc$e13db540$0250400a@WINNT01>

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what maximum traffic can you get in your house !!!


----- Original Message -----
From: Justin W. Pauler <jwpauler@jwpages.com>
To: <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>; Emmanuel Gravel <egravel@earthlink.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: Increasing network performance


> If you are looking for a general NIC that is good quality and has good
> speed, maybe just try a generic NE2000 NIC. I have two NE2000's in my
> machine:
>
>     Pentium 66mhz
>     20MB RAM
>     FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE
>
> They took a little bit of tweaking in the kernel, to get the interrupt/io
> port right, but after I did they run very smoothly. I have one NIC
connected
> to all the printers in my house and one NIC connected to all the machines.
I
> get excellent speeds across both sides and haven't had a hiccup yet.
>
> These two btw are the following:
>
> ed0 at port 0x300-0x31f iomem 0xd8000 irq 3 on isa0
> ed0: address 00:40:05:14:c7:2c, type NE2000 (16 bit)
>
> They are both just a simple 16 bit card, but I get excellent transfer
rates.
>
> Justin W. Pauler
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Emmanuel Gravel <egravel@earthlink.net>
> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Date: Sunday, September 03, 2000 7:30 PM
> Subject: Re: Increasing network performance
>
>
> >Ah! I knew there were driver issues, but didn't think it would be that
bad.
> >Which NIC's would best suit my needs (decent performance, dual homed,
> >P90 CPU, and not too expensive)?
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >At 01:58 AM 9/3/00 -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> >>On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Emmanuel Gravel wrote:
> >>> Does anyone know where I should look to get my box to react a little
> >>> more sanely? If there's anything else you want to know just ask :)
> >>
> >>3c509s are a wee bit CPU hungry.  The driver still has a few issues that
> >>make the cards a poor choice for performance under FreeBSD.
> >
> >
> >
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