On Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 11:36:43AM +0200, Geir.I.Jensen@Runit.Sintef.No wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running current on an PII-266 system directly connected to a 100Mb
> port on our Cisco switch. My network card, 3Com 3C905 should be capable
> of handling that speed. However, the network performance I observe is
> ridiculous. ftp transfer rates to another directly connected 100Mb
> machine gives me just around 40KB/s throughput. This number is
> consistent with other tests I have done (like scp, etc).
> 

The 3com boards are known to not work well under NetBSD, because
the driver doesn't use DMA.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.
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