From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 11 08:30:11 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA24003 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 08:30:11 -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 IAA23997 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 08:30:09 -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 LAA07234; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 11:29:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 11:29:33 -0400 Message-Id: <199507111529.LAA07234@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: Mark Dawson 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 >> 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. > > >EISA bus speed is 33Mb per sec which is 3.3 times faster than 100bT >ethernet, so speed is not a problem. > >There are a couple of manufacturers offering EISA cards at the moment. >The problem is really driver support under FreeBSD. This is the big >question from my point of view. > You're arguing against yourself here. I hope that EISA is more than 33mbs since I get 40mbs on my 10mhz ISA bus. But I was pretty sure that 100bT was 100mbs..... db