Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:25:50 -0700 From: "Len Gross" <sandiegobiker@gmail.com> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Antony Mawer <fbsd-net@mawer.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Subject: Re: Disable Exponential Backoff (retry) on Ethernet? Message-ID: <27cb3ada0710221925n45fd4776xd15478470d3ec1f6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071022162042.6AB0045010@ptavv.es.net> References: <27cb3ada0710212201r103c3adl25a229e772c9526f@mail.gmail.com> <20071022162042.6AB0045010@ptavv.es.net>
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So there is hope in using/finding the card(s). Thanks so much for the follow-up. Much appreciated. On 10/22/07, Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> wrote: > > > Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:01:08 -0700 > > From: "Len Gross" <sandiegobiker@gmail.com> > > Sender: owner-freebsd-net@freebsd.org > > > > Thanks. I'll look into that. > > BTW: The "lance" chip appears to be 1990 vintage, might even be ISA > > The AMD LANCE was the first popular "Ethernet on a chip". It was used > very heavily for about three years after its introduction. While it had > some flaws, especially in its early days, it was reliable and very > programmable. The latter quality made it very popular with network > researchers. It was available on cards from many manufacturers in both > PCI and ISA formats. > -- > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 > >
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