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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:47:38 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
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Subject: Re: Ethernet Cards
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On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Alex wrote:

> > Yes, absolutely!  The ISA cards drag more on your CPU; the PCI cards will
> > make your machine run more efficiently when doing network traffic.  I ran
> > a NE2000 in my Pentium for ages and lost ping -f wars with PCI ethernet
> > cards, until I upgraded. >>:->
> > 
> > Kingston and Dayna are very good cards that are supported by FreeBSD and
> > are inexpensive; the crown jewel is the Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B but
> > that is more expensive.
> > 
> > PCI Ethernet cards are worth the investment (assuming you have PCI slots
> > available).
> 
> Do they need a bus master slot, or can I save those for my VGA and SCSI
> cards?  And how much are the above mentioned cards (I already have a 3c509
> and NE2k)?

I think they are busmastering, yes, but modern hardware doesn't seem to
have issues with it.  I dont' think my old P90 (which you had to manually
assign IRQs to the PCI slots) had any problems either.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major