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Date:      Wed, 23 Apr 1997 15:06:15 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Robert Clark <ROBERTC@PII.COM>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 100MBit Ethernet Cards? -Reply 
Message-ID:  <199704232206.PAA06371@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Apr 1997 14:40:35 PDT." <s35e1fed.002@pii.com> 

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>>   I wrote the driver for the Intel Pro/100B PCI card. It works very well.
>
>Which works very well, the card or the driver? (Just kidding of course.
> Thanks for the good work.)

   Both, actually. The i82557 chip has a reasonable DMA interface which allows
for very efficient code to be written on the OS side. It's currently the
fastest, lowest overhead 100Mbps interface that FreeBSD supports.

>	A serious question, has the change in the national (es9707ahc4
> / dp83840avce) made any changes to the driver
>necessary?

   None that I'm aware of.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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