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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!eru.mt.luth.se!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!EU.net!Norway.EU.net!nntp-oslo.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!not-for-mail From: sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: low-cost ethernet recomendations? Date: 10 Jan 1997 20:49:25 GMT Organization: Nethelp Consulting, Trondheim, Norway Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5b6a0l$6fc@verdi.nethelp.no> References: <7renfxfn6i.fsf@sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov> <5b65a0$ok5@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: aun.uninett.no In-reply-to: jaitken@csugrad.cs.vt.edu's message of 10 Jan 1997 14:29:04 -0500 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33721 [Jeff Aitken] | I'll second J'oerg's recommendation for an SMC 8013. I've got three of | these in use with both FreeBSD and Windows NT machines, and they're | great. Seems to me I ran some very informal benchmarks awhile back and | was able to converse between two machines on a very lightly loaded | ethernet at a respectable fraction of line speed, so their performance | isn't all that bad. Yes, the "stupid ISA cards" aren't all that bad. Just for kicks I did some ttcp tests between a P-133 (2.2-961014-SNAP, DEC 21040 based card) and a PPro-200 (2.2-BETA, NE2000 clone on ISA bus). I was able to get an extremely respectable fraction of the line speed, as reported by ttcp: P-133 -> PPro-200 1060 kByte/s PPro-200 -> P-133 1100 kByte/s Mind you, this was an otherwise quiet Ethernet. Of course the NE2000 clones use more of the CPU than the 21040s - but on a PPro-200, it disappears in the background noise with only one 10 Mbit/s Ethernet :-) Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no