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On Friday 17 December 2004 09:35, Nico Meijer wrote:
> I don't (and won't, unless forced) use Intel NICs, so I cannot speak
> of them. I've had the very unpleasant experience of having had to
> deal with a fierce network boost on a RealTek 8139 (don't ask...) in
> a linux box. It meant the nic (and thus the machine) was unavailable
> for 15 minutes. Other machines (which were not mine) which
> experienced the boost, were humming along nicely. So thanks, I'll pay
> $50 extra for the nic.

Is there anything more than high reliability in Intel/3COM NICs? Do they 
produce less interrupts? I've heard rumors that they do some packet 
processing themselves thus offloading CPU. Is that true? If so, where 
can I check that in kernel source?

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