From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Nov 16 01:18:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA18158 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 01:18:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA18151 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 01:18:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAB11643; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 11:14:37 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199611160914.LAB11643@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: Decision in Router Purchase In-Reply-To: from Jim Dixon at "Nov 15, 96 08:32:39 am" To: jdd@vbc.net (Jim Dixon) Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 11:14:37 +0200 (SAT) Cc: jhay@mikom.csir.co.za, isp@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL24 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > >> Is SDL forthcoming with the technical information required > > > >> to write and maintain drivers? > > > >> ... > > > >Yes, I have written the driver with the information they have given me. > > > >They have been very helpful. They even supplied and shipped 2 N2 boards > > > >and a N2pci board from the USA to me here in South Africa. > > > > > > Have you done any systematic tests of the relative performance of > the N2 (which uses the ISA bus) and the N2pci (which uses the PCI bus) ? No, I used a 486 for the ISA development and a Pentium for the N2pci development. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za