Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 01:30:07 -0500 From: Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent? Message-ID: <37C781EF.95FD950E@airnet.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990827181556.446M-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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Julian Elischer wrote: > > plip? > Ideally, no. The ethernet card makes the data rather easy to handle into other means (like a radio modem). It's already serialized, packetized, has a MAC address for a link address, and it's easy to get seperate RX and TX lines out of the card, even if it is 10Base-2 (BNC). The idea is to eliminate other hardware in order to drop cost and complication. -- Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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