From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 25 18:46:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA06549 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 18:46:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA06512 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 18:45:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA21962; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 18:44:45 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802260244.SAA21962@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: freebsd@isvara.net cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: "Best" Fast Ethernet Card In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 26 Feb 1998 00:04:46 GMT." <34F4B19E.E2C3286B@challenge.isvara.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 18:44:42 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Dan Janowski wrote: > > > How does it compare to the Intel EtherExpress Pro 100B? > > One *great* bonus is it will do IP, TCP and UDP checksums automagically > in hardware! Oh great. This card was designed *explicitly* for Windows systems, where they think it's funny for the network adapter driver to know enough about the protocol layer to manage junk like this. > This will lower CPU usage quite a bit AFAICT, assuming processor time is > not eaten up by the drivers unduly. Wonderful. And does it handle eg. IPv6? Can you program the checksum algorithm, or is it hardcoded? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message