At 04:20 PM 03/28/2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>Scott Laird wrote:
> > According to the drivers, the 1000TPC uses the NS DP83820. According to
> > the DP83820's datasheet, it has a 8k Tx buffer and a 32k Rx buffer.
> > That's a bit shy of the 512k-1M that older cards use :-(. At wire speed,
> > that
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> Some of the products seem so new that their manufactuors have little to no
> information available about them on their webpage. One that I found, had
> conflicting specs and claimed to only have a 32kbyte recieve buffer.
Thats the hardware FIFO size.
Scott Laird wrote:
> According to the drivers, the 1000TPC uses the NS DP83820. According to
> the DP83820's datasheet, it has a 8k Tx buffer and a 32k Rx buffer.
> That's a bit shy of the 512k-1M that older cards use :-(. At wire speed,
> that means that you'll have to service the NIC's interru
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>
> Asante:
> FriendlyNet GigaNIX 1000TPC (Cu) $149.99
>
Interesting -- this seems to be the only card of the set that actually has
drivers available for download, although the D-Link card has drivers for
an older GigE card listed.
According to
Dennis wrote:
> >Some of the products seem so new that their manufactuors have little to no
> >information available about them on their webpage. One that I found, had
> >conflicting specs and claimed to only have a 32kbyte recieve buffer.
>
> whatever you do dont buy a gigabit card with a small
r and 32bits.
32bits isnt enough to do gigabit, even with a large buffer.
db
>They all seem to claim Linux support.
>
>Anyone benchmark any of these new gigabit cards under Linux?
>
>Asante:
>FriendlyNet GigaNIX 1000TPC (Cu)$149.99
>
>D-Link:
>DGe-500T 32bit 10
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