Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 23:29:43 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, dg@root.com, mturpin@shadow.spel.com, toasty@home.dragondata.com, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network adapters: Technical issues Message-ID: <199812170729.XAA03887@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Dec 1998 00:23:14 MST." <4.1.19981217000925.066e26c0@mail.lariat.org>
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> At 11:05 PM 12/16/98 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > >> The Intel Pro/100 ISA isn't supported, then? Or is it? > > > >No, it's a completely different animal. > > Hmmm. One of the purposes of the upgrade is to get everything > running at 100 Mbps full duplex, so that we can use a Layer 2 > switch efficiently. Anything running half duplex or 10 Mbps will > congest the switch by requiring it to use buffers to store and > forward packets. (It can do cut-through switching if there's > no speed difference.) We want to save the buffers to relieve > congestion if it happens. > > How about the 3Com Fast Etherlink ISA? The part number is 3C515-TX. How about a cheap socket-7 motherboard and an AMD K6? Total cost < $150 and all of a sudden you can use PCI adapters. If I knew of any ISA 100Mbps adapters, don't you think I'd have mentioned them? If I say "I don't believe we do", then I damn well mean it! -- \\ 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-hardware" in the body of the message
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