From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 22 02:06:11 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA21557 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 Sep 1995 02:06:11 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA21540 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 1995 02:06:00 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id SAA26923; Fri, 22 Sep 1995 18:52:05 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199509220922.SAA26923@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Need recommendation of ethernet card To: brian@MediaCity.com (Brian Litzinger) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 18:52:05 +0930 (CST) Cc: piero@strider.ibenet.it, bmk@dtr.com, wraith@hollywood.cinenet.net, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509220841.BAA03192@MediaCity.com> from "Brian Litzinger" at Sep 22, 95 01:41:10 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 968 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Brian Litzinger stands accused of saying: > > Quoting from bmk@dtr.com (Fri Sep 22 00:35:39 1995): > > > Stay away from the NE2000 clone cards if your network is going to see > > > any significant amount of traffic. > > > > Why? I'm very happy with mine. > > Cuz with serious traffic their buffer RAM overflows and down the drain > things go. I've experienced it first hand. More to the point, they use programmed I/O for data transfer, so they load your system lots. I'm stuck with a few here, and their performance is really awful if the system is hard at work. > Brian Litzinger -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[