Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 08:34:57 -1000 From: Terrance Young <tyoung@hmsa.com> To: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com> Cc: "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: YA EtherExpress? Message-ID: <350587D1.6C88DE61@hmsa.com> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980309175622.19665A-100000@echonyc.com>
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Steep Price! (and I thought Token Ring was expensive!) I would rather put two 3com high end cards and put it in different segments rather than pay the price for offloading my CPU with one card. The cards (NIC's) don't take away that much of the processor cycles where I would belive would make THAT much of a difference to justify the price. I think the $500 I would have just saved could help go toward a switched hub or something (not that $500 is that much for a network type saving). Correct me if I'm wrong... There is a point to it if there isn't much more you can do with your network and you Really need that much more processor cycles :-) Snob Art Genre wrote: > While I was searching for information on fast ethernet (specifically, > whether it's always switched, or can be shared), I came across the > following: > > The EtherExpress PRO/100 Smart Adapter is an intelligent server card > for Fast Ethernet networks. The PRO/100 Smart Adapter comes with an > on-board Intel i960 processor that offloads the host CPU and delivers > even lower CPU utilization and faster throughput than the standard > PRO/100 Adapters. The PRO/100 Adapters has a PCI bus and a NetWare > driver co-developed by Intel and Novell for optimal performance. > > Price: $895 > Version: PILA8485 > > Has anyone heard of this? Is there any point to it? Does FreeBSD > support it? > > (If anyone knows the answer to my fast ethernet question, that'd be > great too.) > > Ben > > "You have your mind on computers, it seems." > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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