From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 14 23: 2: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ECED37B401; Tue, 14 May 2002 23:01:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0038.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.38] helo=mindspring.com) by snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 177rrC-00010N-00; Tue, 14 May 2002 23:01:51 -0700 Message-ID: <3CE1F9B0.1AD99989@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 23:01:20 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Jamie Heckford , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Gigabit ethernet card tangential topic References: <20020513181756.A53366@mufuf.trident-uk.co.uk> <200205131808.g4DI8JnE069036@apollo.backplane.com> <20020514102221.A55183@mufuf.trident-uk.co.uk> <200205141853.g4EIrxN8075305@apollo.backplane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon wrote: > In anycase, my feeling about GigE in general is that it's a great cheap > way to aggregate data on an uplink, or to an NFS server that needs it, > but the incremental cost and hassle factor are still too high to > extend the benefit to generic servers. I really like not having to use twisty cables. I'm really surprised that no one has built this feature into 10/100 cards yet (at least as far as I know), and you can only get it if you are using a 1000 as a 10/100. 8-(. Gigabit cards are worth all the hassle factor just for that one feature, IMO. 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message