Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 20:13:34 -0500 From: Fletcher E Kittredge <fkittred@mail.gwi.net> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Cory Kempf <ckempf@enigami.com>, Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gigabit ethernet -- what am I doing wrong? Message-ID: <199903150113.UAA23160@mail.gwi.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Mar 1999 12:46:07 PST." <199903142046.MAA87857@rah.star-gate.com>
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On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 12:46:07 -0800 Amancio Hasty wrote: > > Not sure what the problem here is . Can a network chipset designer > create a chipset with a concept of a program store? The answer is yes > , if they chose to implement a sloppy design thats a different issue. Amancio; How big do you envision the queues on a NIC card need to be to handle a moderately loaded, full duplex gigabit ethernet? Basically I think the answer is that the buffers and the logic get so huge, the cost of the card would be prohibitive. regards, fletcher To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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