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Date:      Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:23:56 -0400
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: network slowness/freez-up since update 10/11 
Message-ID:  <16750.35836.603630.981848@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041014090226.84384W-100000@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <E1CI4zq-000G8J-00@hetzner.co.za> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041014090226.84384W-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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Robert Watson writes:

>  To be fair, de(4) is quite tangled and complex compared to other
>  network card drivers we have in the tree. As a result, it has had
>  less maintenance than the other drivers.

	No disrespect to the original writers, but the more you talk
about this the more it sounds like Bruce Simpson has the right idea
and a radical re-write/replacement would be the correct (and
possibly easiest) solution.


				Robert Huff








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