On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 05:37:39PM -0400, Jon Lindgren wrote:

 > 'bout the same cost.  I think I saw 'em for about $129 or such.

Cool.

 > Do these things look like good performers, or is it still worth it to go
 > for the $$$ and buy a big, shiny, expensive network adapter?  Once you've
 > a bit of experience with the adapter, I'd love to hear your opinion...

I have no reason to expect that the chip will perform badly.  I have had
very good experience with National Semiconductor Ethernet parts in the
past.

This chip also does VLAN tagging and IP/TCP/UDP checksumming, and the
interface to these functions on the chip is *very* simple.  I will definitely
work on supporting the checksum feature on the card (we can already use
the VLAN tagging feature) once I'm in "start making it faster" mode :-)

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>