Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:59:44 -0500 From: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net> To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, fkittred@mail.gwi.net Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, wes@softweyr.com, ckempf@enigami.com, wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gigabit ethernet -- what am I doing wrong? Message-ID: <19990314215944E.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Mar 1999 20:13:34 -0500" <199903150113.UAA23160@mail.gwi.net> References: <199903150113.UAA23160@mail.gwi.net>
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From: Fletcher E Kittredge <fkittred@mail.gwi.net> > > Basically I think the answer is that the buffers and the logic get so > huge, the cost of the card would be prohibitive. > Erm... Depends on what one wants to do with it :) I believe certain market segments would welcome a Gigabit Ethernet subsystem on a Rambus with huge memory buffers. Cheers, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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