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Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 00:44:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Suresh Rajagopalan <sraja@cinenet.net>
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Subject: Ethernet card for NFS server
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For a  Freebsd NFS server, I'm looking for a NIC with a decent amount of
cache memory. Most of the 10/100 NIC's on  the market have very small
buffer caches, typically < 8k .

This used to be a big problem in the ISA/EISA days.  Is it no longer a
problem with the PCI NIC's?

Thanks
Suresh