Re: [Bridge] maximum throughput for linux bridge

[Steffen Klassert]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 10:01:54AM -0800 or thereabouts, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> The problem is that the 3c905 cards don't support interrupt mitigation, 
> so when lots
> of network traffic hits, they drop data.  The 3c59x driver allocates and 
> copies every
> received frame in the interrupt routine.  What is needed is a new driver 
> that does NAPI
> (any volunteers)? 
> 

Is seems that it is not possible to get the technical reference
for the 3c905 cards from the 3com webpage any more.
Filling out the cgi form at 
http://support.3com.com/partners/developer/developer_form.html
will leed to a server error.
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