Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 18:04:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon) 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: <199903211804.LAA11607@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199903141920.LAA93395@apollo.backplane.com> from "Matthew Dillon" at Mar 14, 99 11:20:28 am
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> You can always do a card-to-card transfer, but since most modern network > cards do *NOT* have on-card memory doing a card-to-card transfer typically > doesn't work. You mean "most recent network cards". Modern networks cards have memory that can be DMA'ed into by other modern network cards. Moral: being of later manufacture makes you more recent, but being capable of data higher rates is what makes you modern. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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