Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:16:11 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org>, Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good, cheap 100BaseT Ethernet cards? Message-ID: <4.1.19981224111449.05a48100@127.0.0.1> In-Reply-To: <13954.22600.444777.718963@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org> References: <Pine.SGI.3.96.981215083520.18639j-100000@animaniacs.itribe.net> <199812150232.SAA01836@dingo.cdrom.com> <Pine.SGI.3.96.981215083520.18639j-100000@animaniacs.itribe.net>
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At 09:05 AM 12/24/98 -0600, Bruce Albrecht wrote: >National made a chip set, and Intel sold a ISA card with a 10/100 >Mbps, but the Linux Ethernet driver guru never got the specs out of >anyone, and when I tried a couple of months ago, Intel told me to talk >to National, and National told me to talk to my local distributers, >and the two distributers' national document centers didn't have it. I >guess National and Intel are both ashamed to have been involved in a >card that can use 100% of the bandwidth of the ISA bus. That's assuming that you're using UDP, or some other protocol without pacing, exclusively. I think that 100 Mbps interfaces do make some sense for ISA because they at least eliminate some latency. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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