From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Nov 12 8: 9: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B63A337B479 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 08:08:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA97211; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 08:08:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200011121608.IAA97211@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: via chipset and SMP In-Reply-To: <20001112045858.A7123@peorth.iteration.net> from "Michael C . Wu" at "Nov 12, 2000 04:58:58 am" To: keichii@peorth.iteration.net (Michael C . Wu) Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 08:08:10 -0800 (PST) Cc: cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us (Chris Dillon), jgowdy@home.com (Jeremiah Gowdy), ktsin@acm.org (KT Sin), freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ... > 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