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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-jena.de!news.HRZ.HAB-Weimar.DE!News.HTWM.De!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system Subject: Re: NFS performance: What am I doing wrong with FreeBSD? Date: 20 Feb 1996 00:19:32 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4gb42k$d34@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4fg59k$fmp@galaxy.ucr.edu> <bswDMJLz1.5nx@netcom.com> <slrn4hojig.jhq.hwr@snert.pilhuhn.de> <4fu76t$232@pell.pell.chi.il.us> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:14047 comp.os.linux.development.system:17643 orc@pell.chi.il.us (Orc) writes: > >Also use the same ethernet cards ... > > The odd thing about this is that from everything I've heard, the > 3c509 is a faster card than the NE2000. Maybe, but both suck when compared to the Lance (Am7990) cards. I think the FreeBSD driver for the 3c509 ain't the best after all, while the `ed' driver (NE1000/2000, 3c503, WD8003/WD8013) is one of the better drivers. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)