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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Recommend a PCI ethernet card? Date: 13 Mar 1996 08:27:44 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4i60u0$arb@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4i4sa2$etg@newdelph.cig.mot.com> 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 kadow@msg.net writes: > I have a FreeBSD-based system acting as a web server. Currently it is a > 486/100 with a PCI SCSI controller and ISA ethernet card. > > Would I see any gain in performance (e.g. reduced CPU overhead) by switching > to a PCI ethernet card? This depends on your ISA card. If it's something poor like an NE2000, yes, the PCI-based board might gain you something. If it's a WD8013, it perhaps won't give you too much. > Can anybody suggest a card that will work well with FreeBSD and which is > currently available? The devices listed in the hardware guide/FAQ are > not specific as to model. DEC-21040 based cards. Many vendors build them. > Specifically, I'd like to use an ethernet card available from Elek-Tek or > a similar local store (CDW, CompUSA, etc), but the cards they stock are > not quite identical to the ones specified in the FreeBSD 2.1 FAQ files, > and they don't have a very generous return policy. If you buy me a flight to US, i might have a look into your local stores to see which cards they've got. :-) -- 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. ;-)