12 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-stableRe: okay, I WILL get out and help push | From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Drew Derbyshire - UUPC/extended software support | Mar 20, 1998 6:04 am | |
| Eivind Eklund | Mar 20, 1998 7:54 am | |
| Jordan K. Hubbard | Mar 20, 1998 8:25 am | |
| Matthew D. Fuller | Mar 20, 1998 8:44 am | |
| Eivind Eklund | Mar 20, 1998 11:03 am | |
| John Hay | Mar 20, 1998 11:14 am | |
| Benjamin Greenwald | Mar 20, 1998 11:29 am | |
| Atipa | Mar 20, 1998 11:37 am | |
| Benjamin Greenwald | Mar 20, 1998 12:37 pm | |
| Eivind Eklund | Mar 20, 1998 1:04 pm | |
| Atipa | Mar 20, 1998 2:35 pm | |
| Daniel O'Connor | Mar 22, 1998 4:12 pm |
| Subject: | Re: okay, I WILL get out and help push | |
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| From: | Benjamin Greenwald (be...@lcs.mit.edu) | |
| Date: | Mar 20, 1998 11:29:45 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-stable | |
On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 10:44:51AM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
2) I'm open to suggestions for a cheap Plug'n'Pray PCI Ethernet card that I can pick up locally (CompUSA/Computer City). (PNP is now supported in stable, yes?)
Anything from 3COM or SMC should do the trick.
I've had moderate sucess with my 3Com 3C905. It's not a great card, but it works decently, at least at 10 Mbit.
I'm going to disagree here. It is not a great _driver_, but as far as I've been able to tell, it actually is a great card. The 590/595 are OK cards, the 900/905 are great cards. They do full scather/gather DMA (and IIRC checksumming), leaving them open for a zero-copy implementation. The problem is that the driver only use them in 'compatibility mode', which doesn't exploit _anything_ - driving it at about the efficiency-level of an NE2000.
I'm going to agree with Eivind... under Win NT the 3C905 rocks. It's only major drawback is that it doesn't have a harward multicast filter (it has a single bit --- accept multicast/don't). So if you are going to go high-end and use multicast a lot, the Intel 10/100 Pro/B/+ is a better choice.
As to the driver issue, I've just begun developing a new vx driver which will use the advanced features of the Boomerang cards(3C90?), and stay compatible with Vortex (3C59?).
-Ben
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