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Date:      Wed, 6 Mar 1996 10:51:57 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG, jeff@tad.cetlink.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: TCP Tuning?
Message-ID:  <199603061751.KAA11337@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199603061147.MAA08172@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Mar 6, 96 12:47:36 pm

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> > > Get a better ethernet card... the ne2k's have a poor performance in
> > > general because they don't have any on-card RAM to store packets. Get
> > > either a SMC card or one of the DEC DC21040 based cards.
> 
> 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.

Unless you compare it to DMA I/O on the same bus...  8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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