Re: Best NIC for FBSD (was: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..)

2000-03-16 Thread Martin Cracauer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Smith wrote: > > fxp0: The Intel driver is by far the highest preformance model, > > beats the 3com (second best) hands down with much lower CPU > > overhead. > > Do you actually have any numbers to quantify this? There's nothing in > the driver architecture nor

Re: Best NIC for FBSD (was: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..)

2000-03-15 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Smith writes: >> >> fxp0: The Intel driver is by far the highest preformance model, >> >> beats the 3com (second best) hands down with much lower CPU >> >> overhead. >> > >> >Do you actually have any numbers to quan

Re: Best NIC for FBSD (was: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..)

2000-03-15 Thread Mike Smith
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Smith writes: > >> fxp0: The Intel driver is by far the highest preformance model, > >> beats the 3com (second best) hands down with much lower CPU > >> overhead. > > > >Do you actually have any numbers to quantify this? There's nothing in > >the driver a

Re: Best NIC for FBSD (was: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..)

2000-03-15 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Smith writes: >> fxp0: The Intel driver is by far the highest preformance model, >> beats the 3com (second best) hands down with much lower CPU >> overhead. > >Do you actually have any numbers to quantify this? There's nothing in >the driver architecture no

Re: Best NIC for FBSD (was: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..)

2000-03-15 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "David O'Brien" writes: : On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 12:17:02PM -0800, yramin wrote: : > fxp0: The Intel driver is by far the highest preformance model, beats : > the 3com (second best) hands down with much lower CPU overhead. : : People say that alot. But does anyon

Re: Re: Best NIC for FBSD (was: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..)

2000-03-15 Thread yramin
Mike, These are my own perosnal findings with machines I've tinkered with. Nothing scientific about them. I did a few trials FTPing a 600MB file around on a 100Mb switched network between to machines (they were not identical, but used the same ones for both tests), once with Intel PRO/100 ad

Re: Re: Best NIC for FBSD (was: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..)

2000-03-15 Thread yramin
Mike, These are my own perosnal findings with machines I've tinkered with. Nothing scientific about them. I did a few trials FTPing a 600MB file around on a 100Mb switched network between to machines (they were not identical, but used the same ones for both tests), once with Intel PRO/100 ad

Re: Re: Best NIC for FBSD (was: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..)

2000-03-15 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 01:04:06PM -0800, yramin wrote: > I did a few trials FTPing a 600MB file around on a 100Mb switched ... > machines used wu-ftpd and were running FreeBSD 3.2 - R at the time. Much has changed since 3.2. Does anyone have any real data on a 4.0-CURRENT box within the past 3

Re: Re: Best NIC for FBSD (was: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..)

2000-03-15 Thread yramin
Mike, These are my own perosnal findings with machines I've tinkered with. Nothing scientific about them. I did a few trials FTPing a 600MB file around on a 100Mb switched network between to machines (they were not identical, but used the same ones for both tests), once with Intel PRO/100 ad

Re: Best NIC for FBSD (was: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..)

2000-03-15 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > Do you actually have any numbers to quantify this? There's nothing in > the driver architecture nor any of my testing that would suggest this is > actually the case at this point. As of about four years ago, the relative performance of the network interfaces was fairly clear: 1) In

Re: Best NIC for FBSD (was: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..)

2000-03-15 Thread Mike Smith
> fxp0: The Intel driver is by far the highest preformance model, > beats the 3com (second best) hands down with much lower CPU > overhead. Do you actually have any numbers to quantify this? There's nothing in the driver architecture nor any of my testing that would suggest this is actually

Re: Re: Best NIC for FBSD (was: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..)

2000-03-15 Thread yramin
Mike, These are my own perosnal findings with machines I've tinkered with. Nothing scientific about them. I did a few trials FTPing a 600MB file around on a 100Mb switched network between to machines (they were not identical, but used the same ones for both tests), once with Intel PRO/100 ad

Re: Re: Best NIC for FBSD (was: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..)

2000-03-15 Thread yramin
Mike, These are my own perosnal findings with machines I've tinkered with. Nothing scientific about them. I did a few trials FTPing a 600MB file around on a 100Mb switched network between to machines (they were not identical, but used the same ones for both tests), once with Intel PRO/100 ad

Re: Best NIC for FBSD (was: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..)

2000-03-15 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 12:17:02PM -0800, yramin wrote: > fxp0: The Intel driver is by far the highest preformance model, beats > the 3com (second best) hands down with much lower CPU overhead. People say that alot. But does anyone have any real measurements [taken in the last three months]? -

Re: Re: Best NIC for FBSD (was: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..)

2000-03-15 Thread yramin
Mike, These are my own perosnal findings with machines I've tinkered with. Nothing scientific about them. I did a few trials FTPing a 600MB file around on a 100Mb switched network between to machines (they were not identical, but used the same ones for both tests), once with Intel PRO/100 ad

Re: Re: Best NIC for FBSD (was: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..)

2000-03-15 Thread yramin
Sorry about that guys and gals. I was using my ISPs webmail system, and each time I hit sent I got a wonderous Internal Server Error message, and of course I couldn't tell if it got sent or not :). Delete at your own free will. Yann > Why 6 copies of this? > > > This message is in MIME for

Re: Re: Best NIC for FBSD (was: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..)

2000-03-15 Thread yramin
Mike, These are my own perosnal findings with machines I've tinkered with. Nothing scientific about them. I did a few trials FTPing a 600MB file around on a 100Mb switched network between to machines (they were not identical, but used the same ones for both tests), once with Intel PRO/100 ad

Re: Re: Best NIC for FBSD (was: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..)

2000-03-15 Thread yramin
Mike, These are my own perosnal findings with machines I've tinkered with. Nothing scientific about them. I did a few trials FTPing a 600MB file around on a 100Mb switched network between to machines (they were not identical, but used the same ones for both tests), once with Intel PRO/100 ad

Re: Best NIC for FBSD (was: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..)

2000-03-15 Thread yramin
In my expierience, these drivers/cards work the best: ed0: For ISA anything, works like a charm rl0: The Realtek driver is rather fast, useful with those $10 PCI NICs fxp0: The Intel driver is by far the highest preformance model, beats the 3com (second best) hands down with much lower CPU ov

Re: Best NIC for FBSD (was: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..)

2000-03-15 Thread yramin
In my expierience, these drivers/cards work the best: ed0: For ISA anything, works like a charm rl0: The Realtek driver is rather fast, useful with those $10 PCI NICs fxp0: The Intel driver is by far the highest preformance model, beats the 3com (second best) hands down with much lower CPU ov