From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 2 23:43:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA10169 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 23:43:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.HeadCandy.com (root@[199.238.225.168]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA10161 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 23:42:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.HeadCandy.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA11047; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 23:41:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199607030641.XAA11047@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.HeadCandy.com: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Michael Smith cc: jparnas@jparnas.cybercom.net (Jacob M. Parnas), henry@zoo.toronto.edu, hardware@freebsd.org, bsdi-users@bsdi.com Subject: Re: muliport boards - building a PPP dialup server In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 29 Jun 96 17:14:29 +0930. <199606290744.RAA20801@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 23:41:55 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >What's the difference between an ethernet card and a high-speed serial >card other than the name and the shape of the connectors? >(Aside from performance, of course) The fact that one handles things a character at a time, interrupting for every few, and the other handles things a "packet" at a time, interrupting for every "packet-full" of data. There's an order of magnitude scaling difference there. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... Roll your own Internet access -- Seattle People's Internet cooperative. If you're in the Seattle area, ask me how. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------