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From: avega@pax.inria.fr (Andres Vega Garcia)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: What is the best Ethernet card?
Date: 12 Apr 1994 15:57:59 GMT
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Re: Hardware for *BSD next weekend!
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Hi,
I am installing FreeBSD 1.1 Beta.
I already have a 3C509 Ethernet card, but it seems to be a lot of
problems with it, I am wondering which one is the best ethernet card for
FreeBSD 1.1, the best one in terms of the max rate we can get from it and
information available to develop the driver if it is not supported by
FreeBSD.
Some PC's characteristics:
HP Vectra 486DX - 33 MHz
AT Bus (ISA)
RAM 8 Mb
What I am planning to do is to develop some packet scheduling
policies such as Fair Queuing, FIFO, etc. in order to compare them
in a real network simulating "high speed" links using the AUI connector as
a 10 Mbps full duplex link. I have now 4 PCs and I will installl
several ethernet cards in each one to have my test-network.
It will be better if I can have the same ethernet card to link the
PCs and to connect just one of the PCs to the Ethernet Network at work,
but it is possible to make tests with one type of card and to have just
one another card to do the installation of FreeBSD and to keep networked
with the world.
If one takes away the not driver for the 3C509, is it still a
good choice in the terms I have pointed above?
What is your advice or comments?, thank you in advance.
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Andres VEGA GARCIA INRIA Projet RODEO
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