From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 6 08:30:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA02204 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 08:30:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA02194 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 08:30:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA28988; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 11:11:50 -0500 Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 11:11:50 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" Message-Id: <9603061611.AA28988@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Bad Ethernet cards In-Reply-To: <199603061147.MAA08172@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> References: <199603060507.PAA23151@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <199603061147.MAA08172@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk < said: > Just for the records... There are PCI-based ne2000 clones, which > sell for approx US$60 here. Programmed I/O on the PCI bus should not be > slow at all. It doesn't matter what sort of bus it's on; if the CPU has to do all the work, when it could (should) be doing higher-level processing, then performance is going to suck. There is no way around it. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant