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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: help improve news server performance
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 16:09:57 +0100
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <33B9FCA9.59@onthenet.com.au>,
Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> writes:
> I notice that you have an ISA-bus NE2000 (or clone) card yet you have a
> PCI-bus machine!!! I've tossed ALL by SVEC NE2000 clone cards in some
> dark, dusty corner never to see the light of day again... They are VERY
> BAD NEWS on Pentium/PCI machines and I suspect the same on K5's. The
> small amount of receive buffering meant that any other reasonable NIC on
> the LAN could 'flood' the NE2000 resulting in ABSOLUTELY DREADFUL tcp/ip
> performance (av 5-15 Kb/s for file transfers!!!).
[.....]
I have an SMC ISA card (dunno which brand) in a P100 here that gives
the same performance as my original NE2000 clone on a 486DX33 at home
years ago - 850k per seconds - that's almost 7Mbps !
There's nothing bad about ISA NICs.
> Tony
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !