From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 14 19: 9:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.atl.bellsouth.net (mail1.atl.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52A4E150C5 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 19:09:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wghicks@bellsouth.net) Received: from wghicks.bellsouth.net (host-209-214-65-74.atl.bellsouth.net [209.214.65.74]) by mail1.atl.bellsouth.net (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA26654; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 22:08:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (wghicks@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wghicks.bellsouth.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA25141; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:59:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wghicks@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? 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> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.93 on XEmacs 20.4 (Emerald) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19990314215944E.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:59:44 -0500 From: W Gerald Hicks X-Dispatcher: imput version 980905(IM100) Lines: 15 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Fletcher E Kittredge > > 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