From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jul 30 14:28:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from gabriel.schoolpeople.net (gabriel.schoolpeople.net [216.34.170.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5016B37B74D for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 14:28:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brandon@schoolpeople.net) Received: from triangulata (cs2887-130.austin.rr.com [24.28.87.130]) by gabriel.schoolpeople.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA34906 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 16:28:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brandon@schoolpeople.net) Message-ID: <00c301bffa6d$c5318780$82571c18@austin.rr.com> From: "Brandon S. DeYoung" To: Subject: A couple questions about Ethernet Server adapters. Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 16:33:14 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00C0_01BFFA43.DB68E220" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00C0_01BFFA43.DB68E220 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thanks to all who wrote about the DLINK-DFE570TX. I had no idea quad = port NICs were so cheap.=20 According to Dlink's website the DFE570TX is capable of delivering a = bandwidth of 800 Mb/s. Is this just the marketing department distorting = the facts? Since 4 x 100 Mb =3D 400Mb I'm guessing they're referring to = full Duplex operation, i.e. 400Mb/s send + 400Mb/s receive =3D 800Mb/s?? = Also, how does one configure these things? Do you just set all the ports = to the same IP address, or is it more complicated than that? I read an article a while back about tuning Samba. In this article = they made a reference to "binding" one of the CPUs in an SMP machine to = the NIC. Is this possible under FreeBSD (4.1)? Can someone point me at a = URL which tells how to do it? So far my searches haven't turned up = anything useful. Thanks in advance, ~Brandon =20 ------=_NextPart_000_00C0_01BFFA43.DB68E220 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Thanks to all who = wrote about=20 the DLINK-DFE570TX. I had no idea quad port NICs were so cheap. =

According to Dlink's = website the=20 DFE570TX is capable of delivering a bandwidth of 800 Mb/s. Is this just = the=20 marketing department distorting the facts? Since 4 x 100 Mb =3D 400Mb = I'm guessing=20 they're referring to full Duplex operation, i.e. 400Mb/s send + 400Mb/s = receive=20 =3D 800Mb/s?? Also, how does one = configure these=20 things? Do you just set all the ports to the same IP address, or is it = more=20 complicated than that?

I read an = article a=20 while back about tuning Samba. In this article they made a = reference to=20 "binding" one of the CPUs in an SMP machine to the NIC. Is this = possible=20 under FreeBSD (4.1)? Can someone point me at a URL which tells how to do = it? So=20 far my searches haven't turned up anything useful.

Thanks in advance,

~Brandon

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