Subject: Re: packet capturing
To: Darren Reed <darrenr@netbsd.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/22/2004 09:02:29
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 05:25:14AM +0000, Darren Reed wrote:
>
> The paper aside, are 100BT nics coming out with interrupt deferal or
> is it only 1000BT ones ? What about 4 port 1000BT cards (can you get
> them, even) ?
Even $30 1000baseT NIC cards have interrupt deferral. And yes, there
are $30 1000baseT cards that work quite well -- nothing keeps you from
running them at 100baseTX, of course.
There are indeed 4-port gigabit cards. We used one in my last project
at ReefEdge -- it'd just come on the market then and was kinda pricy
but I bet it's dropped. At the time, Intel made the only one.
--
Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com
But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp! You towel! You
plate!" and so on. --Sigmund Freud