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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!kettle.magna.com.au!metro!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!lamarck.sura.net!news.uky.edu!news From: soward@neworder.cc.uky.edu Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Performance of Ethernet cards? Date: 6 Oct 1995 16:04:21 GMT Organization: University of Kentucky Computing Services Lines: 12 Distribution: world Message-ID: <453k25$pov@service2.uky.edu> References: <4538ak$66c@hubcap.clemson.edu> Reply-To: soward@pop.uky.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: neworder.cc.uky.edu X-Newsreader: Kiwi [version .09] In Performance of Ethernet cards? comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc <ArticleDisplayer: 0x507054> writes, > (Sorry for the crosspost, but I'm running NetBSD now and plan to > bring up a couple of FreeBSD systems soon in a lab here.) > > Which of the supported ISA Ethernet cards is/are considered to > have the best performance? Which should I avoid? What experience > have folks had with PCI Ethernet cards (is the DECchip the only > one that's supported?) so far? Well, I switched from a 3c5X9 card to a PCI cogent em960, throughput went up a couple hundred K/sec and CPU useage when moving a lot of data went down...and no IRQ/DMA/base hassles.