From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 9 22:42:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.249.129.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7729D14D0B for ; Sun, 9 May 1999 22:42:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA53849; Sun, 9 May 1999 22:41:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199905100541.WAA53849@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: Francisco Reyes , FreeBSd Chat list Subject: Re: Ethernet card with TCP stack built in In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 10 May 1999 15:05:42 +0930." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 22:41:31 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The scenario is a plausible given that windows is so ineficient 8) > > On 10-May-99 Francisco Reyes wrote: > > Any ideas what happened to that NIC? > > It is my impression that chips that offload functions from the CPU seem > > to be gaining some momentum. Probably because of advances in technology > > and reduced cost of manufacturing such chips. > > And the cycle of reincarnation is coming around again :) > > Don't worry in a few years it will be back to what it was.. > > --- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum -- Amancio Hasty hasty@star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message