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From: dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Network Performance
Date: 26 Jun 1997 10:30:28 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. - 415 964 BEST
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All of our ppro boxes, running FreeBSD, use PCI ethernet cards with
digital chipsets in them:
de0 <Digital 21140 Fast Ethernet> rev 17 int a irq 12 on pci0:10
de0: SMC 9332 21140 [10-100Mb/s] pass 1.1
de0: address 00:00:c0:36:41:c6
de0: enabling 10baseT port
We are only running them at 10BaseT speeds, but the performance I get
out of them is phenominal.. the news box saturates its ethernet
and I've seen aggregate rates approach a megabyte/sec and stay that way
for long periods of time.
When we start throwing in 100BaseT switches, it will be interesting to
see how they run at higher speeds.
-Matt