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From: ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen)
Subject: Re: NetBSD TCP/IP Networking BUG
Message-ID: <CnLEE2.CsD@rex.uokhsc.edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 1994 18:08:26 GMT
Reply-To: benjamin-goldsteen@uokhsc.edu
References: <2mt0i7$7ph@sundog.tiac.net> <michaelv.764549935@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <a09878.764560008@giant> <2n7h1p$jlk@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
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rkb55989@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Rafal Boni) writes:
>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...
While I can't recommend an NE2000 card, I worked with one system
that had a D-link 2xx NE2000 compatible card. Under NCSA Telnet
(packet driver over ODI), I can 100KB/second to a IBM RS/6000 or SGI
Indigo (this is through a router...). Using FreeBSD-1.1-BETA (I have a
hard time believe NetBSD can't do the same), I can get 450-550KB/second
to those same machines (through the same router). The Ethernet is
pretty unloaded in these cases. Performance is respectible, but as I
hinted, if I could have picked out the card*, I would get something like
a SMC Elite (WD8013EP or whatever).
[this was a clone 486DX-33 ISA]
*This cheapy clone system included a cheapy monitor, a non-LB SVGA card
(yet the system has VLB), no L2 cache, etc but it cost more than a
comparable Gateway 2000 (which would have had a fairly decent
CrystalScan monitor). You got to love computer support that gets
kickbacks...
--
Benjamin Z. Goldsteen