From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 11 08:18:59 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA23446 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 08:18:59 -0700 Received: from mail.htp.com (mail.htp.com [199.171.4.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA23440 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 08:18:56 -0700 Received: from et.htp.com (et.htp.com [199.171.4.228]) by mail.htp.com (8.6.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id LAA07160; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 11:18:12 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 11:18:12 -0400 Message-Id: <199507111518.LAA07160@mail.htp.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.htp.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Tom Samplonius From: dennis@et.htp.com (dennis) Subject: Re: Wanted: 100bT EISA ethernet recommendation Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Tom's opinion.... > >On Tue, 11 Jul 1995, dennis wrote: > >> The question is, who would build one? EISA cards are too expensive to build >> and EISA is too slow for a 100mbs medium. If someone is making them then >> I'll bet they have a much bigger marketing dept than engineering. > > That's wrong. EISA is fast enough for 100mbs ethernet. It can't be wrong, because any way you slice it its an opinion. Under light load anything will work, but under heavy load its nice if your bus throughput is greater than the bandwidth. If your EISA card is bus mastering it can take over your machine under heavy load. For a workstation, sure, but not for a server. And EISA is too expensive for a workstation. db