[geeks] ADSL Modem

[Phil Stracchino]

Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>> :)  (Besides, the only quad SBUS Ethernet NICs I've seen are quad hme,
>> and when I was playing with using the LX for that job, OpenBSD and hme
>> interfaces just didn't get along well.  I did some comparative testing,
>> and I actually got less bandwidth through a hme under OpenBSD 3.3 than 
>> I
>> could get through the onboard le.)
>>
> 
> That has been my experience as well, and why I ended up using OpenBSD 
> on a Dell p3-866 machine routing and firewalling a 10mbps ethernet 
> handoff  instead of an Ultra 1 or 2 with two hme's .  It just did not 
> work well .

In fact, now that I think of it, my throughput testing showed the
following order of throughput, from highest to lowest:  le at 10HDX, hme
at 10HDX, hme at 100HDX.  And if memory serves, hme at 100FDX just plain
didn't work at all.


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