Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 11:11:50 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Bad Ethernet cards Message-ID: <9603061611.AA28988@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199603061147.MAA08172@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> References: <199603060507.PAA23151@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <199603061147.MAA08172@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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<<On Wed, 6 Mar 1996 12:47:36 +0100 (MET), Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> 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
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