Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 13:32:13 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Cc: ken@plutotech.com, sthaug@nethelp.no, mtaylor@cybernet.com, doconnor@gsoft.com.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, shocking@prth.pgs.com Subject: Re: Decent network cards for 100Mbit? Message-ID: <199905031932.NAA25435@panzer.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <372DF8B2.667763F0@softweyr.com> from Wes Peters at "May 3, 1999 1:27:46 pm"
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Wes Peters wrote... > "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > > > > I'd recommend the Intel Pro 100 cards. I've got 30-40 machines with those > > cards (Pro/100B and Pro/100+), and haven't had any trouble. > > > > As Steinar points out, the key is the driver. In this case, the Intel > > driver works well. (That's not to say that other drivers don't work, just > > that my experience with the fxp driver has been good.) > > My only complaint about the EEPro 100B cards is paying Intel $65 for > a card that has a single $4 chip on it. Bleh. Plus, the performance > I've seen hasn't been all that stellar, but I may be doing something > wrong. I haven't really tried tuning the system much yet, just doing > some simple throughput tests using ftp and tcpblast. I've gotten pretty decent performance out of them, and I know one guy that claims to have gotten 98Mbits/sec out of one... Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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