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Date:      Mon, 14 Dec 1998 17:03:14 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Mark turpin <mturpin@shadow.spel.com>
Cc:        jt&mn <jtorranc@televar.com>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Good, cheap 100BaseT Ethernet cards?
Message-ID:  <4.1.19981214170125.04700f10@mail.lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981214185209.15459A-100000@shadow.spel.com>
References:  <4.1.19981214114218.06ce3d90@mail.lariat.org>

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At 06:57 PM 12/14/98 -0500, Mark turpin wrote:
 
>	You'll want to read the comments in the if_rl.c file for some idea
>of performance.   

If the buffering is as bad as you describe, I'm surprised that the cards
work well at all due to limited buffer RAM and lots of copies into
and out of kernel memory.

>They work great for me,  I run a computer training center.

Given your description of the chip, I'm amazed!

--Brett



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