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From: steve@eagle.ais.net (Stephen Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Performance 3Com 3C509 vs. 3C590?
Date: 8 Jul 1996 18:53:11 GMT
Organization: American Information Systems, Inc.
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D. Chris Daniels (chrisd@dlpco.com) wrote:
: Stephen Schmidt wrote:
: > Warning: The following _may_ have changed recently, but I have no
: > knowledge of any such changes.
: >
: > BSDI's support for the 3C590/595 is somewhat broken. Under high-load
: > situations (we run ftp.usr.com, amongst other traffic hogs), the drivers
: > for the 590/595 exhibit their immaturity, and hang periodically. This
: > problem has been discussed at lenght with BSDI, and the only reasonable
: > fix so far has been to move to a SMC card instead. We had about 10 of
: > the 590/595 card mix installed, and had to pull them all to be replaced
: > with SMC cards.
: Have you used the Intel PRO-10/100 cards? I understand that they are
: less CPU intensive than the 3Com 59x.
Haven't used them. We (used to) eclusively use 3COM stuff, until our
switch to SMC. The SMC's have worked wonderfully, and DO exhibit a much
lower CPU load than the 3COMs.
Steve
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