Dan, List,
> From: "Dan Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 08:53:25 -0500
>
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> As for using an ISA-> PCM/CIA card - Or in fact any ISA card
^^^^^^^^^^^^
> like a NIC - it's generally Not A Good Idea. As it turns out, the ISA
> bus runs at 8.3 mHz while the PCI to ISA bridge runs at 33 mHz. This
> means that every ISA interrupt generates *four* PCI interrupts. Yuk.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Would you care to explain/elaborate this? I can't make head nor tail
of it. I am a poor soul with a mere twenty years in the
hardware/software business and I haven't met this one before... ;-)
> But, it gets worse: The NIC has to respond to all packets,
> generating interrupts whether the packet is destined for that machine
> or not.
And here I was that thinking that software told hardware which MAC
addresses it had to respond to... ;-)
> Cheers!
> Dan
Seasons greetings
Mark
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