From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 21 05:38:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA11300 for current-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 05:38:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spsem02.sps.mot.com ([192.70.231.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA11292; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 05:38:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mogate.sps.mot.com by spsem02.sps.mot.com (4.1/SMI-4.1/Email 2.1 10/25/93) id AA16424 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 21 Jul 97 05:38:42 MST Received: from zfrbc.sps.mot.com by mogate.sps.mot.com (4.1/SMI-4.1/Email-2.0) id AA23721 for dg@root.com; Mon, 21 Jul 97 05:38:39 MST Received: from sissdev.sps.mot.com by zfrbc.sps.mot.com with SMTP (1.37.109.20/16.2) id AA169578714; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 07:38:34 -0500 Received: by sissdev.sps.mot.com (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA23156; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 14:37:29 +0200 Message-Id: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on AIX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <21008.869326490@time.cdrom.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 14:35:09 +0200 (DFT) From: Dermot McNally To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: I am contemplating the following change... Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K. Hubbard" , dg@root.com Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 19-Jul-97 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >It's far more common in the 8 bit cards, yes. I would, however, >hypothesize that the 16 bit cards have now (or will very shortly) >outnumber the legacy equipment. I do know that I've certainly >received a considerable amount of negative feedback over the choice of >5 ("5?! Who uses that anymore? 10! The default value should be >10! What are you guys thinking?!") :-) > >How does the "user base" feel about this? 10, every time. Or 11 if you really want to, but not 5 and certainly not 3, for the very good reasons already pointed out. I would guess that anyone who still uses an 8-bit network card has been long enough at this game to know how to tweak the default value. Dermot ---------------------------------- Dermot McNally, Motorola EMEA CCS, Muenchen dermot@sissdev.sps.mot.com, phone +49-89-92103 648 ----------------------------------