On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:20:26 -0500 John Ziniti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| Yes, but keep in mind the following quote from those comments:
| 
| "
|   * It's impossible given this rotten design to really achieve decent
|   * performance at 100Mbps, unless you happen to have a 400Mhz PII or
|   * some equally overmuscled CPU to drive it.
| "
| 
| A "400 MHz PII" is not exactly a powerhouse these days, although it
| may have been in 1997-1998 when those comments were written.

Would you rather use 1% of your CPU or 20% of your CPU when doing
network-related things? The comment still applies.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh
Mail:    ciaranm at gentoo.org
Web:     http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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