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To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
From: dennis@et.htp.com (dennis)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router
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R. Grimes writes.....

>The SMC 9332 EtherPower 10/100 is a bus master device with no memory
>on it at all.  It uses host memory for packet buffers and for all
>practical purposes this can be as much memory as you want to through
>at it!
>
As long as you can get the bus. You don't want this on a 100mbs media
device. The card (or controller) needs some buffering or you'll be in
trouble with a heavy burst.

db