Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 18:52:05 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: brian@MediaCity.com (Brian Litzinger) Cc: piero@strider.ibenet.it, bmk@dtr.com, wraith@hollywood.cinenet.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need recommendation of ethernet card Message-ID: <199509220922.SAA26923@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199509220841.BAA03192@MediaCity.com> from "Brian Litzinger" at Sep 22, 95 01:41:10 am
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Brian Litzinger stands accused of saying: > > Quoting from bmk@dtr.com (Fri Sep 22 00:35:39 1995): > > > Stay away from the NE2000 clone cards if your network is going to see > > > any significant amount of traffic. > > > > Why? I'm very happy with mine. > > Cuz with serious traffic their buffer RAM overflows and down the drain > things go. I've experienced it first hand. More to the point, they use programmed I/O for data transfer, so they load your system lots. I'm stuck with a few here, and their performance is really awful if the system is hard at work. > Brian Litzinger -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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