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Date:      Tue, 14 May 2002 23:01:20 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Jamie Heckford <jamie@tridentmicrosystems.co.uk>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Gigabit ethernet card tangential topic
Message-ID:  <3CE1F9B0.1AD99989@mindspring.com>
References:  <20020513181756.A53366@mufuf.trident-uk.co.uk> <200205131808.g4DI8JnE069036@apollo.backplane.com> <20020514102221.A55183@mufuf.trident-uk.co.uk> <200205141853.g4EIrxN8075305@apollo.backplane.com>

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Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     In anycase, my feeling about GigE in general is that it's a great cheap
>     way to aggregate data on an uplink, or to an NFS server that needs it,
>     but the incremental cost and hassle factor are still too high to
>     extend the benefit to generic servers.

I really like not having to use twisty cables.

I'm really surprised that no one has built this feature into
10/100 cards yet (at least as far as I know), and you can only
get it if you are using a 1000 as a 10/100.  8-(.

Gigabit cards are worth all the hassle factor just for that one
feature, IMO.  8-).

-- Terry

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