Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:26:21 -0500 From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> To: Herve Quiroz <herve.quiroz@esil.univ-mrs.fr> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD PCnet PCI II vs Realtek RTL8139 Message-ID: <20020329122621.A24817@tp.databus.com> In-Reply-To: <20020328141504.U34885-100000@puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr>; from herve.quiroz@esil.univ-mrs.fr on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 02:28:34PM %2B0100 References: <20020328141504.U34885-100000@puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr>
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The 8139 seems to be much reviled, but I think that may be an obsolete opinion. I have an 8139-based card in a K6-3/400 that will easily pass >10MBytes/sec in either direction without much load on the cpu. There really are not a whole lot of situations that demand better performance than that, and those that do can certainly afford a little more for the card. I got 3 of them as a bonus along with a 16-port switch for $129 some time last year. -- Barney Wolff I never met a computer I didn't like. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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