Re: New gigabit cards

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:45:59 -0500

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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