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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!rkb55989 From: rkb55989@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Rafal Boni) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD TCP/IP Networking BUG Date: 28 Mar 1994 21:09:13 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 37 Message-ID: <2n7h1p$jlk@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <2mt0i7$7ph@sundog.tiac.net> <michaelv.764549935@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <a09878.764560008@giant> NNTP-Posting-Host: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) writes: >michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes: >>Common factor: they all have NE2000's. I have never experienced >>anything of this sort with Western Digital ethernet cards. I suspect >>your NE2000 driver. >Funny, I have this exact same problem between my Windows LWP box and >my NetBSD box. Both have NE2000s. I'll pop a protocol analyser on and >see what's going on when I get the chance. Note: To add to Chris' comment about "never having heard anyone say anything good about the Ne2000 [real or cloned]", I have to say that these cards BITE ROCKS! Running NT on a 486/DX50 with a NE2000, I got worse performance than a crusty 286/10 with a 3c503.. In back-to-back tests running both machines against a couple of HP, Sun and high end Intel boxes [like the SystemPros], I think the NE2000 was getting about 10K/s throughput [I can almost match that with my SLIP link ;>]. The 286 was getting ~300K/s. Conditions did vary, but I did all this on a weekend when the office was almost empty... >cjs >-- >Curt Sampson a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca >Fluor Daniel 604 691 5458 >1444 Alberni Street >Vanouver, B.C., V6G 2Z4 Non scholae sed vitae discimus. --Cicero --rafal /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ |"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit | Rafal Boni | | 15% of the earth, which is 100% more than they | r-boni@uiuc.edu | | have now..." -Cartoon caption in New Yorker | My opinions, not UIUC's | \--------------------------------------------------------------------------/