[ On Saturday, September 30, 2000 at 20:26:00 (-0400), Brian Gregor wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: Network Interface Cards
>
> I used to get 700 kB/sec or so via FTP with the 8013's over 10base2
> between a K6-200 & a 486DX2-66.

hmm... I'm guessing not with 8013WC's though, either that or not with
NetBSD....  The 8416BT I have might go faster...  There was some other
problem with the 8013WC's that I can't exactly remember too, something
significant enough to make me switch back to the ne2000's -- perhaps it
couldn't NAT as fast with them....

I neglected to mention the exact specs before.  My machine is also a
486DX2/66MHz (with 8MB RAM)....  It has a PCI bus too, but nothing's
using it and the chassis I have it in won't let me plug any PCI cards in
anyway, at least now without cutting metal.  The kernel does say
"Warning: broken PCI-Host bridge detected; disabling memory-mapped
access" though....

I've got a BSDI-1.1 box still running on a 486SX25/8MB and it does over
670kb/s gets and 460kb/s puts with FTP from/to my P-II server with its
3C509 card....

I have a pair of Ansel Comm. 2100/1500 cards that do DMA and have an
AM79C960KC chip.  They "suck" with NetBSD's "nele" driver but maybe
Steve Nuchia's "tn" driver from BSD/OS will talk to them.  As I recall
South Coast Computing's TNIC-1500 card was one of the fastest of its
generation, at least using that chip.

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