Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 14:22:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Gennadi Makhmetov <gena@ph-elec.phys.msu.su>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lnc device Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970701141640.2155A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970701164038.668B-100000@lightning.tbe.net>
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On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Gary D. Margiotta wrote: > > if you can get a NON PCI MB. just use 16 bit SMA/WD cards. > > (they are also cheaper). > > do NOT use NE2000 cards. > > Just out of curiosity, do you mean generic NE2000 cards, and if so, may I > ask as to why you say not to get them. We have a few NE2000 generic cards > in some machines here, and have absolutely no problems with them, plus > their speeds aren't bad. They aren't near as good as the Intel Pro100B > PCI cards we also use, but they are still decently fast nontheless... > > -Gary Margiotta > TBE Internet Services > http://www.tbe.net NE-2000 cards use programmed I/O. Programmed I/O to NE-200 cards is CPU intensive. 486 systems will have problems saturating ethernet with a NE-2000 card, but will not have problems with a shared memory card. If you are using NE-2000 in a Pentium or Pentium Pro system, you are just wasting expensive CPU power. What does a Pentium Pro 200 with 512k of onchip cache cost? About a thousand bucks, I guess. What does a Intel Pro100B cost? Less than a hundred bucks. Tom
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