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On Jun 11, 2004, at 10:15 AM, Andrey Petrov wrote:

>> I was under the impression that 3com 3c905 should be a good NIC?
>>
>
> I don't know actually. Is it?

3c905 isn't too bad as far as 10/100 interfaces go.  It can do TCP/IP 
checksum offload, and it seems to perform decently.  3c905's are 
on-board the motherboard of ftp.netbsd.org, and they pump a lot of 
traffic, with TCP/IP checksum offload enabled:

ex0 at pci2 dev 8 function 0: 3Com 3c905C-TX 10/100 Ethernet with mngmt 
(rev. 0x78)

ex0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 
1500
         capabilities=7<IP4CSUM,TCP4CSUM,UDP4CSUM>
         enabled=7<IP4CSUM,TCP4CSUM,UDP4CSUM>
         ...

Name  Mtu   Network       Address           Ipkts      Ierrs Opkts      
Oerrs Colls
...
ex0   1500  204.152.185.2 ftp.isc.netbsd.or 4372571097 105   6977850436 
0     0
...

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>


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