Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:26:01 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha snapshots? (was RE: Alphserver 2100 4/233) Message-ID: <20000720132601.C67647@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007201306360.45768-100000@beppo.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 01:08:01PM -0700 References: <20000720130323.B67647@dragon.nuxi.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007201306360.45768-100000@beppo.feral.com>
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On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 01:08:01PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > And after that, some of nics which are unlikely to be found in alphas > > > (rl, sf, sis, ste, tl, vr, wb, xl, le, fxp). > > > > Overall I could go this way, but not with the list above. Right now `xl' > > is the best Alpha NIC we have. With `xl' removed, I wouldn't be able to > > install on my AS 250 as it is on a 100-mbit only switch via an `xl'. > > `xl' is the only NIC in my PC164SX box. > > Huh? I've found de and dc to be satisfactory. Yes, if you happen to have a `dc' or `de' card laying around. Please don't forget the PC164SX comes with no no-board NIC. So the assembler of the machine is able to install their favorite NIC (or some cheapass Fry's POS). Or did you mean the performance issue? Only `xl' and `fxp' can do zero-copy on coming packets (as wpaul told me yesterday). wpaul seems to prefer the `xl' cards, and I want to use the NIC he supports the best, so I prefer to use `xl' when possible. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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