Re: Intel PRO/100 S

2002-10-02 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, > > - Can I make use of that hardware acceleration? > Not yet. It relies on as-yet undocumented hardware registers and TCB > formats which Intel will not release documentation for without signing > an NDA. Just a stupid question: couldn't pdeuskar@ help on this topic? Or is it all about th

Re: Intel PRO/100 S

2002-10-02 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 06:33:13PM +0200, Marc Ernst Eddy van Woerkom wrote: > As far as I can tell from a bit of Google > research, it features hardware encryprtion/decryption. Check the BGA ASIC. If it's an 82550EY or 82550GY, it should be crypto capable. The 82559ED may also be crypto capable.

Re: Intel PRO/100 S

2002-10-01 Thread Juli Mallett
* De: Marc Ernst Eddy van Woerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2002-10-01 ] [ Subjecte: Intel PRO/100 S ] > Hi, > > yesterday I bought a network card to connect a second PC > to my old machine. > They had only one type of card in the store so I bought it anyway,

Intel PRO/100 S

2002-10-01 Thread Marc Ernst Eddy van Woerkom
Hi, yesterday I bought a network card to connect a second PC to my old machine. They had only one type of card in the store so I bought it anyway, despite its rather high price of 37 Euro. Today I took a closer look. It is an Intel PRO/100 S board packaged in plastic pack, without docs. It

Re: IPSEC offloading on Intel PRO/100 S

2002-03-01 Thread Sam Leffler
CTED]> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 2:33 AM Subject: Re: IPSEC offloading on Intel PRO/100 S > Is there ANY hardware encryption support in FreeBSD? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: IPSEC offloading on Intel PRO/100 S

2002-03-01 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Pardon my lack of caffiene; I have a pint mug of tea on my desk now. On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:40:35AM +, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > > > > Is there ANY hardware encryption support in FreeBSD? > > Things are gradually being rearranged to facilitate this, as part of SMPng. > At the moment the

Re: IPSEC offloading on Intel PRO/100 S

2002-03-01 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 04:33:04AM -0600, Len Conrad wrote: > > > > o Would anybody be interested in my adding support for this beast's crypto > > > features to the fxp driver? > > > >Yes. :) > > Is there ANY hardware encryption support in FreeBSD? Things are gradually being rearranged to fac

Re: IPSEC offloading on Intel PRO/100 S

2002-03-01 Thread Len Conrad
> > o Would anybody be interested in my adding support for this beast's crypto > > features to the fxp driver? > >Yes. :) Is there ANY hardware encryption support in FreeBSD? Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com

Re: IPSEC offloading on Intel PRO/100 S

2002-03-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Bruce M Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020301 01:58] wrote: > > o Would anybody be interested in my adding support for this beast's crypto > features to the fxp driver? Yes. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-

IPSEC offloading on Intel PRO/100 S

2002-03-01 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Guys, A few questions regarding the Intel PRO/100 S Ethernet adapter: o Has anybody experimented with using the IPSEC ESP 3DES hardware offload capability of the Intel 82550EY ASIC used within the above NIC? o Have Intel ever released specs for this ASIC publicly? o Would anybody be

Re: Maximum throughput of Intel Pro 100/S NIC?

2001-11-23 Thread sthaug
> >I have got 96% of 100Mbps under real production load. > > Wouldn't the TCP/IP overhead + ethernet design (collisions) reduce this > figure to more like 70Mbs max in the real world? As has been pointed out, a lot of people run full duplex these days. With FD ethernet, the maximum achievable b

Re: Maximum throughput of Intel Pro 100/S NIC?

2001-11-23 Thread Thor Legvold
Hi Bill, > > >I have got 96% of 100Mbps under real production load. > > > > Wouldn't the TCP/IP overhead + ethernet design (collisions) reduce > >figure to more like 70Mbs max in the real world? > >1) when people refer to getting 96% of X Mbps, they're referring to >ethernet frames, not cute

Re: Maximum throughput of Intel Pro 100/S NIC?

2001-11-23 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 09:07:50AM +, Thor Legvold wrote: > >I have got 96% of 100Mbps under real production load. > > Wouldn't the TCP/IP overhead + ethernet design (collisions) reduce this > figure to more like 70Mbs max in the real world? 1) when people refer to getting 96% of X Mbps, t

Re: Maximum throughput of Intel Pro 100/S NIC?

2001-11-23 Thread Thor Legvold
"Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did wax gregarious and thus spake: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Hi, > > > > I have an Intel Pro 100/S NIC on FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE connected to a >Cisco > > Catalyst 3500XL switch at 100Mbps, full-

RE: Maximum throughput of Intel Pro 100/S NIC?

2001-11-22 Thread sthaug
> The hosts are Pentium III 900Mhz machines with 1GB of memory. How do you > check the duplex configuration? On the switch? On the Windows NT machine? On your FreeBSD host, you can check it with the "ifconfig" command. If you have a managed switch, you should be able to get duplex information thr

RE: Maximum throughput of Intel Pro 100/S NIC?

2001-11-22 Thread Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On a single NIC? Are the clients getting data from your host or are they > putting data on the host? None of above. It was one of my core routers so it was transit IP traffic through router. And one of NICs reach almost 100Mbps. > I have got 96% of 100Mbps under r

RE: Maximum throughput of Intel Pro 100/S NIC?

2001-11-22 Thread francisv
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Maximum throughput of Intel Pro 100/S NIC? > I have an Intel Pro 100/S NIC on FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE connected to a Cisco > Catalyst 3500XL switch at 100Mbps, full-duplex but I only get 15.6Mbps > throughput. I'm transferring ISO images from the FreeBSD ma

RE: Maximum throughput of Intel Pro 100/S NIC?

2001-11-22 Thread francisv
throughput of Intel Pro 100/S NIC? [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi, > > I have an Intel Pro 100/S NIC on FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE connected to a Cisco > Catalyst 3500XL switch at 100Mbps, full-duplex but I only get 15.6Mbps > throughput. I'm transferring ISO images from the FreeBSD mac

Re: Maximum throughput of Intel Pro 100/S NIC?

2001-11-22 Thread sthaug
> I have an Intel Pro 100/S NIC on FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE connected to a Cisco > Catalyst 3500XL switch at 100Mbps, full-duplex but I only get 15.6Mbps > throughput. I'm transferring ISO images from the FreeBSD machine to an NT > FTP server which is also connected on the same switch

Maximum throughput of Intel Pro 100/S NIC?

2001-11-22 Thread Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi, > > I have an Intel Pro 100/S NIC on FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE connected to a Cisco > Catalyst 3500XL switch at 100Mbps, full-duplex but I only get 15.6Mbps > throughput. I'm transferring ISO images from the FreeBSD machine to an NT > F

Maximum throughput of Intel Pro 100/S NIC?

2001-11-22 Thread francisv
Hi, I have an Intel Pro 100/S NIC on FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE connected to a Cisco Catalyst 3500XL switch at 100Mbps, full-duplex but I only get 15.6Mbps throughput. I'm transferring ISO images from the FreeBSD machine to an NT FTP server which is also connected on the same switch. What's