From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 13 07:22:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA03632 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 07:22:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA03622 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 07:22:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA20940; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 10:22:06 -0500 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 10:22:06 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" Message-Id: <9603131522.AA20940@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Michael Smith Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which PCI Ethernet card ? In-Reply-To: <199603122148.IAA29103@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> References: <199603122148.IAA29103@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: >> Incidentally, in a July 1995 review of 10-Mbit PCI NICs in "Network >> Computing" this card tied the 3Com EtherLink III PCI for first place! > I find that very amusing 8) When you consider how meaningless those > benchmarks really are, and that the 'ed' driver and a WD8013 is just > as capable of totally saturating an ethernet as a PCI card is. It is much more useful to look at 100-Mbit Fast Ethernet devices; we still have a ways to go in this regard. (I'm in the process of fixing my fast UDP packet generator to work in my new networking interrupt framework so that it can go faster than 15,000 packets per second.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant