Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 15:45:23 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, kdupuis@dcs.stu.rpi.edu Subject: Re: 3c590 problem Message-ID: <199611020515.PAA06637@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199611012338.AAA24119@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Nov 2, 96 00:38:16 am
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J Wunsch stands accused of saying: > > > > (I'm not sure what makes you think that a '590 is the only card you can > > > use to sustain that sort of throughput; you could do it with an NE2000...) > > > > There are multiple cards in the machine, and that kind of traffic > > multiplied will kill an ISA bus. Peaks of 1MB/sec are quite common. Fair enough; that justifies a PCI card of some description. > Still no justification for the 3Com one. Re-read Michael's mail: he > suggested you using a DEC-2104[01] based card. In case you don't > know, they are also PCI parts. ... and perhaps I should have been clearer. I suspect that the 590 as a card is quite OK, but a number of Unices have problems with them, and the 'vx' driver isn't quite up to snuff yet. If this sytem is mission-critical (and it sounds like it is), the extremely robust and well-tested 'de' driver, and the very cheap cards that it supports are a more sensible choice. (Note to australian consumers : KTX are selling a Tulip-based card that can be had for around AU$80 ex; we now have a few of these and they work just fine. BNC/UTP, model is (IIRC) EN5100) > cheers, J"org -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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