From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 5 07:34:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA12958 for current-outgoing; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 07:34:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from research.gate.nec.co.jp (research.gate.nec.co.jp [202.32.8.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA12952 for ; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 07:34:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from sbl-gw.sbl.cl.nec.co.jp by research.gate.nec.co.jp (8.8.5+2.7Wbeta5/950912) with ESMTP id AAA13735; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 00:34:45 +0900 (JST) Received: from sirius.sbl.cl.nec.co.jp by sbl-gw.sbl.cl.nec.co.jp (8.8.5+2.7Wbeta5/3.3W6) with ESMTP id AAA22587; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 00:34:41 +0900 (JST) Received: by sirius.sbl.cl.nec.co.jp (8.7.5+2.6Wbeta6/3.3W6) with UUCP id AAA07259; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 00:34:36 +0900 (JST) Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 00:34:36 +0900 (JST) From: Naoki Hamada Message-Id: <199704051534.AAA07259@sirius.sbl.cl.nec.co.jp> References: To: dfr@nlsystems.com CC: current@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Doug Rabson's message of "Sat, 5 Apr 1997 16:00:46 +0100 (BST)" Subject: Re: Is the vx driver supposed to work at 100Mbps? Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug Rabson writes: >My new machine had one of these in it and performance for 100Mbps ethernet >was abysmal. I only got 50k/sec for ftp transfers. Luckily I happened to >have an Intel card lying around (6Meg/sec) but it would be nice to get the >3com card working since there are huge numbers of them being sold all over >the place. Some 3C905 actually shows astonishingly poor performance with the vx driver. Since 3com still does not provide me its technical reference manual, its support is only experimental. They say `Only internal notes which are not distributable to unfamiliar people are present.' Their mails are sincere enough to believe it, so what I can do is only to wait :-< - nao