Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 15:49:26 -0500 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> Subject: Re: [hackers] Re: Realtek Message-ID: <16007.22614.840137.999671@canoe.velocet.net> In-Reply-To: <200303301145.12141.wes@softweyr.com> References: <007c01c2e3ef$3483d8a0$0229c80a@abtec412> <20030306145022.GA31433@krion> <16002.16342.476020.510769@canoe.velocet.net> <200303301145.12141.wes@softweyr.com>
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>>>>> "Wes" == Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> writes: Wes> On Wednesday 26 March 2003 16:03, David Gilbert wrote: >> Given the price of this card ... and the fact that >> less-than-400Mhz CPU's are rather rare, and that this is only an >> issue for high bandwidth applications ... the rl cards might fit >> for you. Wes> Given the price of the card, you can almost always find a better Wes> one at roughly the same price. For instance, this one: Wes> dc0: <Intel 21143 10/100BaseTX> port 0xd800-0xd87f mem Wes> 0xf3000000-0xf30003ff irq 7 at device 11.0 on pci0 Wes> was FREE last Christmas, from Office Depot. It's a Belkin Wes> branded card and normally sells for $10 (at TigerDirect.com). I was a fan of the dc drivers ... I think most sysadmins were. They were the early 4 port cards ... and then they were the cheap 4 port cards. I still see a few come along with prices in the $10 range from various vendors. But ... I'm not sure that their performance is largely better than the rl's. The driver writer for the rl maligns the card in comments for requiring alignment (and thus copying). There are far worse hacks in the dc code ... with the comment that some dc implementations are worse than others. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================
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