From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 27 23:31:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AA2E14FBF for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 23:31:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (tc14-216-180-35-51.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.35.51] (may be forged)) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id BAA13292; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 01:30:21 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37C781EF.95FD950E@airnet.net> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 01:30:07 -0500 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Non Illegitemus Carborundum. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julian Elischer wrote: > > plip? > Ideally, no. The ethernet card makes the data rather easy to handle into other means (like a radio modem). It's already serialized, packetized, has a MAC address for a link address, and it's easy to get seperate RX and TX lines out of the card, even if it is 10Base-2 (BNC). The idea is to eliminate other hardware in order to drop cost and complication. -- Kris Kirby ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message