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Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 13:04:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Fastest Network Driver for FreeBSD
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On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Charles Henrich wrote:

> Which ethernet card driver (100bt preferably) is the fastest, and which has
> the lowest CPU overhead?  (Wouldnt it be nice if they were the same? :)
> Thanks!

The one with the best support is the Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI
adapters.  They do have some tweaks and don't like dirty lines, but the
driver is learning how to deal with them.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major