From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 30 12:21:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA12147 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:21:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bleep.ishiboo.com (user20555@bleep.ishiboo.com [206.64.4.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA12133 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:21:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from black@bleep.ishiboo.com) From: black@bleep.ishiboo.com Received: (qmail 7945 invoked by uid 1018); 30 Mar 1998 20:24:16 -0000 Message-ID: <19980330202416.19914.qmail@bleep.ishiboo.com> Subject: Re: Virtual Interface Architecture In-Reply-To: from "Ron G. Minnich" at "Mar 30, 98 02:22:51 pm" To: rminnich@Sarnoff.COM (Ron G. Minnich) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:24:16 -0500 (EST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > word is that gigabit ethernet frames grow to 9300 bytes soon. Of course they already have, actually. gigabit ethernet borrows a lot from fibre channel it seems, which i think can only improve ethernet. if you are thinking about gigabit ethernet, here is my experience: alteon NICs are bad, foundry networks and extreme networks switches are very good. i have yet to test any bay networks gigabit ethernet stuff but i was unimpressed by their accelar product at 100Mb. cisco, of course, isn't even in the race yet. ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message