From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 9 15: 3:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from a.mx.everquick.net (a.mx.everquick.net [216.89.137.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45A1C37B718 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 15:03:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net) Received: from localhost (eddy@localhost) by a.mx.everquick.net (8.9.0/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA10708 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 23:03:33 GMT X-EverQuick-No-Abuse: Report any e-mail abuse to Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 23:03:33 +0000 (GMT) From: "E.B. Dreger" To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: The ideal NIC (Re: if_fxp - the real point) In-Reply-To: <20010309221250.2384337B71B@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bear with me and allow me my delusions while I daydream... What with FPGA technology as reasonable as it is, and the amount of hw/sw talent on these lists, maybe people should band together and come up with a NIC? Maybe have native mode + Tulip/PNIC clone compatibility mode. Take a look at www.opencores.org for a start. What production volumes are required before ASICs are feasible? What about having a FreeBSD CDROM + NIC bundle featuring whatever card gets designed? If ya can't join 'em, beat 'em. Okay. Back to work and reality. :-) Eddy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. EverQuick Internet / EternalCommerce Division E-Mail: eddy@everquick.net Phone: (316) 794-8922 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message