Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 08:08:10 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: keichii@peorth.iteration.net (Michael C . Wu) Cc: cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us (Chris Dillon), jgowdy@home.com (Jeremiah Gowdy), ktsin@acm.org (KT Sin), freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: via chipset and SMP Message-ID: <200011121608.IAA97211@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <20001112045858.A7123@peorth.iteration.net> from "Michael C . Wu" at "Nov 12, 2000 04:58:58 am"
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... > D-Link's company idea is to go for low-end, low-price. > See Bill Paul's if_rl.c comments. :) Again, broad strokes applied to a vendor. Yes, D-Link does make some real cheap shit like 81x9 NIC cards, based on the cheapest NIC chip you can buy. _BUT_, and this is a big but, they also make some fine NIC cards. Like we 21040 based DFE-500, then the 21143/21150 four port DFE-770TX. These used DEC (now Intel) chips, infact some of the better NIC chips on the market. There ``low cost'' 10/100 switches are junk, they make some nicer switches using BroadCOM chips, again, probably some of the better 10/100 switch chips on the market. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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