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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!nntp.gmd.de!news.ruhr-uni-bochum.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de!juengst From: juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Performance of Ethernet cards? Date: 12 Oct 1995 18:07:56 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Strahlen- und Kernphysik Lines: 30 Sender: juengst@saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst) Distribution: world Message-ID: <45jlhs$cmi@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> References: <4538ak$66c@hubcap.clemson.edu> Reply-To: juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de NNTP-Posting-Host: saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de Keywords: ethernet network interface Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1141 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:7134 In article <4538ak$66c@hubcap.clemson.edu>, rmoose@ces.clemson.edu (Robert L. Moose Jr.) 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? I have just tested my SMC 8432 (DECchip 21041) via ftp on a P90 board running NetBSD-current, command "get xxx.dat /dev/null" (binary mode), size of xxx.dat = 10 MByte on a DEC Alpha machine. The data had to cross an ethernet repeater. Result: a little bit more than 1000000 bytes/sec (repeated more than once). Ok, it's just a quick test, but I think that is a nice result. > >Bob Moose robert.moose@ces.clemson.edu >ECE Dept./Clemson University > Henry -- juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de [131.220.161.1] (internet) juengst@boss1.physik.uni-bonn.de [131.220.161.41] saph1::juengst [13.259] (decnet) Any opinions in this mail are my own.