Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 22:24:34 +0200 (MET DST) From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: dennis@et.htp.com (dennis) Cc: tom@sdf.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wanted: 100bT EISA ethernet recommendation Message-ID: <199507112024.WAA04999@blaise.ibp.fr> In-Reply-To: <199507111518.LAA07160@mail.htp.com> from "dennis" at Jul 11, 95 11:18:12 am
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> 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. HP use EISA in most of their 9000/7xx stations and they're performing that badly... -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD keltia 2.0-BUILT-19950503 #3: Wed May 3 19:53:04 MET DST 1995
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