Re: New gigabit cards

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Wed Mar 28 2001 - 14:45:59 EST


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 buffer and 32bits.
> 32bits isnt enough to do gigabit, even with a large buffer.

Never underestimate what will come out of Taiwan in massive quantities
:)

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