Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 03:55:06 +0000 From: Gunther Schadow <gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The ultimate board! Message-ID: <3AD91B9A.581D977D@aurora.regenstrief.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0104141110490.91559-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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Chris Dillon wrote: > > sis0: <NatSemi DP83815 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xa0000000-0xa0000ff > > Ewww... Is this a good enough Ethernet chipset? I've not had good > luck with any of SiS's stuff. They seem to make, for lack of a nicer > word, crap. "E.B. Dreger" wrote: > I'd imagine that 2x 21143TD would cost just a teeny bit more than 3x Sis. > Personally, I would be more interested in a 2x Tulip model. SiS scares > me, too... Chris Dillon continues: > I would be interested in one if the overall hardware itself is decent > enough, though I realize better hardware means more money. If someone > runs it through some obstacle courses and the "junk" works without any > known problems, I'm for it. I'm not in the position to buy more than > one. I have friends that might be interested as well, though. Could you tell me what's wrong with the National Semiconductor DP83815 ethernet chips? I guess for a low cost board, I am happy not to have been given realteks. The Flytech NetPC NC-2 that I use as an interim comes with realtek. What's the problem with the sis driver? So far it worked all nicely for me. These boards come with net-booting by default. It was a breeze to set up -- my first netbooting experience, and I hadn't had that much fun for a while (it's wonderful not having to worry squeezing my bootstrapping package onto a floppy to get a single board with flash up and running, not to mention again how easy the Compact Flash was compared with those DiskOnChip thingies seen elsewhere.) I plan to use these for IPsec encrypting videoconferencing. My testing so far shows that the board can sustain AT LEAST 2 Mb/s per each direction (blowfish-cbc with 256 bit keys.) This 2 Mb/s number may not be a true maximum because my testing involved a pretty crummy 10 Mb/s hub :-(. I understand that the 486 class CPU is sort of a bottleneck for encryption work though, but Soren wanted to build a Hi/Fn based hardware crypto board too. Will be some fiddling with drivers though ... Let me know what benchmark or other "obstacle course" you want to see tested on it. regards -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow@regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistent Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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