-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 December 2003 20:28, Matt Garman wrote: > I have a 100/10 Mbps home LAN whose performance is considerably less > than capable. The setup is as follows: > > - OpenBSD server with two PCI NICs (a D-Link and a Linksys). > One NIC connects to the Internet, the other connects to the > LAN. (This machine provides the firewall/gateway/NAT > functions.) > - A Linksys "Etherfast Dual-Speed 5-Port Workgroup Switch" > - My Linux workstation. It's using an onboard 3Com 3c59x NIC > (Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard) > - My roomate's Win2k box. Also has a Linksys 100/10 PCI NIC. [snip] > Anyone have any ideas, thoughts, hints, suggestions, etc?
The 3com cards are very nice, but from experience can perform *very* badly. It is very finicky about negotiation/duplex. I dumped one of mine for a cheapo realtek based one because of this. What sort of speed can you get between Win2K and OpenBSD with a crossover cable? - -- Mike Williams -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/0kkTInuLMrk7bIwRArSGAKCOKVRu0j2U/HaP06A5VDDmjCwNyQCgnu7W wzeADXa9HGiM7Dq/T4GSSf0= =b2p2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
