Yes, there will be variations from card to card. Some cards like
the older Accton ones had a "TURBO" jumper that enabled more
agressive bus timing. At a reasonable ISA speed, I have stuffed in
excess of 950kB/s into these cards. Other el-cheapo cards I have used
will plod along at about 700kB/s. At 8MHz ISA bus you can expect to do
even worse.
> has been worked on a lot and I haven't noticed anyone mention this, so
> maybe it's the NE2000 driver. Everyone seems to expect the NE2000 to be
> slow anyway, so maybe that's why nobody noticed. :-)
NE2k cards may not be a brilliant design, but they don't have to be
slow. For example, shortly after I added the PCI support to the ne
driver, Jacques Gelinas told me that he was getting 1.1megs/sec from
a hp700/60 using ftp. The linux box was a 133mhz pentium using one of
the RealTek PCI ne2000 clones. Txing to the same hp box got 950k/s.
> If someone tells me what to do, I am quite willing to do various tests
Check your ISA bus speed, and the TCP window as mentioned in the
performance tuning section of the Ethernet-HowTo.
> raw packets. Another is to try to get the 1.2.13 ne.c working with
> 1.3.
Don't waste your time. The only thing I changed in the ne driver during
the 1.3 series was to add PCI support. The last change before that was
the fix to the hard lockup problems that went in 1.2.8 or so.
Paul.