From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Dec 14 16:03:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA05233 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 16:03:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA05209 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 16:03:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id RAA09148; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 17:03:33 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19981214170125.04700f10@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 17:03:14 -0700 To: Mark turpin From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Good, cheap 100BaseT Ethernet cards? Cc: jt&mn , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.1.19981214114218.06ce3d90@mail.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 06:57 PM 12/14/98 -0500, Mark turpin wrote: > You'll want to read the comments in the if_rl.c file for some idea >of performance. If the buffering is as bad as you describe, I'm surprised that the cards work well at all due to limited buffer RAM and lots of copies into and out of kernel memory. >They work great for me, I run a computer training center. Given your description of the chip, I'm amazed! --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message