Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 18:44:42 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: freebsd@isvara.net Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: "Best" Fast Ethernet Card Message-ID: <199802260244.SAA21962@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Feb 1998 00:04:46 GMT." <34F4B19E.E2C3286B@challenge.isvara.net>
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> Dan Janowski wrote: > > > How does it compare to the Intel EtherExpress Pro 100B? > > One *great* bonus is it will do IP, TCP and UDP checksums automagically > in hardware! Oh great. This card was designed *explicitly* for Windows systems, where they think it's funny for the network adapter driver to know enough about the protocol layer to manage junk like this. > This will lower CPU usage quite a bit AFAICT, assuming processor time is > not eaten up by the drivers unduly. Wonderful. And does it handle eg. IPv6? Can you program the checksum algorithm, or is it hardcoded? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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