On Oct 23, Olaf Seibert wrote
> I always thought the 3c509 were pretty good cards. So one learns something
> new every day. The raw TCP speed, even from the slowest of these machines,
> tends to be pretty good though. 
> 

Yes. The problem comes when the machine does something else at the same time
(like reading/writing to disk, ...). Interrupt isn't serviced quickly
enouth, and the sall fifo gets overflowded.
Note that the elink3 driver doesn't say anything when the fifo
overflowded.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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