From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Dec 24 10:17:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA01305 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 10:17:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA01289 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 10:17:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id LAA26887; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:17:29 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19981224111449.05a48100@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: brett@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:16:11 -0700 To: Bruce Albrecht , Jamie Bowden From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Good, cheap 100BaseT Ethernet cards? Cc: Mike Smith , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <13954.22600.444777.718963@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org> References: <199812150232.SAA01836@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 09:05 AM 12/24/98 -0600, Bruce Albrecht wrote: >National made a chip set, and Intel sold a ISA card with a 10/100 >Mbps, but the Linux Ethernet driver guru never got the specs out of >anyone, and when I tried a couple of months ago, Intel told me to talk >to National, and National told me to talk to my local distributers, >and the two distributers' national document centers didn't have it. I >guess National and Intel are both ashamed to have been involved in a >card that can use 100% of the bandwidth of the ISA bus. That's assuming that you're using UDP, or some other protocol without pacing, exclusively. I think that 100 Mbps interfaces do make some sense for ISA because they at least eliminate some latency. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message