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To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Reply-To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Subject: Re: Gigabit ethernet -- what am I doing wrong? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 14 Mar 1999 12:46:07 PST."
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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 20:13:34 -0500
From: Fletcher E Kittredge <fkittred@mail.gwi.net>
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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


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