Re: FBSD and and the sk() network driver
- From: jpd <read_the_sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 2 Mar 2008 09:19:02 GMT
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On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:14:33 GMT,
Jason Bourne <j_bourne_treadstone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I bought these cards for home use because they were inexpensive. I do
believe the old adage of "you gets what you pay for...". The reason to pay
more money for a piece of hardware is to get superior performance.
Mind that this adage is only a rule of thumb: While it is entirely
justified to mention when someone is complaining that some known piece
of crap is giving a less than stellar performance, there is no guarantee
a more expensive bit of kit must necessairily be better than a cheaper
counterpart.
I still have a few 21143 NICs that I bought back when for what is now
slightly less than 20 EUR/pc -- 3com 905 cards were more expensive and
not better, realteks were not that much cheaper and much worse.
The SK gear I worked with was first revision stuff and I used it with
FreeBSD 4.{9,11} on SMP machines. I didn't tune much of it as it wasn't
necessairy -- the point was to have substantial faster networking than
the 100Mbit the rest of the network was using[1]. The cards didn't
strike me as crappy or cheap, though.
It would perhaps be interesting to see how the various NICs compare in
throughput, stability, longevity, and so on. Alas, I don't have a lab to
try them all.
[1] Fileserver, and a couple of boxes with heavy data crunching duties.
All were on one barely-managed[2] switch with a Gbit uplink to
the rest of the (managed, cisco switches) network, which itself
used daisy-chained Gbit links for the backbone.
[2] As in, could somewhat set vlans via a barely working full-screen
vt100-assuming interface on the serial port with an odd speed.
About the same class of manageability as the stuff that underpins
el-cheapo ide<->scsi raid stuff, no matter how many layers of
java-interface-providing-linux are slapped on, if with perhaps less
disastrous results.
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