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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!netnews.upenn.edu!dsinc!newsfeed.pitt.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 3c590 PCI 10mbps ethernet card vx driver? (fwd) Date: 14 Mar 1996 22:57:57 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4ia89l$191@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960313192958.32655A-100000@gallup.cia-g.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 Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com> writes: > Frederick Gray has written a driver for the 3com 590 PCI ethernet card: It is already incorporated in -current. Alas, the driver itself claims that it does use PIO to access the card. For a continuous 1 MB/s input packet stream, the CPU utilization of an i586/90 is > 70 %. So this doesn't seem to be a good solution for heavy-loaded servers. -- 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. ;-)