At 10:27 PM -0700 7/17/01, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:13:13AM -0500, Donald Lee wrote:
> > I'll have to do
> > some benchmarking to see if it can drive a full 100 Mbits, but
>
>Don't bother -- the RealTek cards that the "rtk" driver supports are
>crappy, bottom of the barrel junk chips.  There's a reason they're
>so cheap.  They are slow for several reasons, but the short list:

Is there a discussion of this somewhere?  I might want to get a 
"good" 100BaseT card and how do I know which ones actually are 
supported with no-copy drivers?


Cross my heart, strike me dead, stick a lobster on my head.
John Crichton -- Farscape, 6/15/01
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