From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 11 13:25:06 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA03227 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 13:25:06 -0700 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA03221 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 13:25:02 -0700 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id WAA15330 ; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 22:24:37 +0200 Received: from (roberto@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) id WAA04999 ; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 22:24:35 +0200 From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) Message-Id: <199507112024.WAA04999@blaise.ibp.fr> Subject: Re: Wanted: 100bT EISA ethernet recommendation To: dennis@et.htp.com (dennis) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 22:24:34 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: tom@sdf.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507111518.LAA07160@mail.htp.com> from "dennis" at Jul 11, 95 11:18:12 am X-Operating-System: FreeBSD BUILT-19950501 ctm#617 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 602 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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