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Re: Ether Net Messages!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Janssen reading Linux mailingl)
Sun Dec 10 07:24:46 1995
From: linux@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen reading Linux mailinglist)
To: hdg@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at (Bernhard Heidegger)
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 13:15:37 +0100 (MET)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, mjc@stelias.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.951208123038.2254A-100000@fstgal02.tu-graz.ac.at> from "Bernhard Heidegger" at Dec 8, 95 12:42:57 pm
Reply-To: linux-vger@wab-tis.rabobank.nl
According to Bernhard Heidegger:
> Maybe my 486DX2-66 is too slow for the fast 3c509 ;-)
The 3c509 is not as super as 3com wants you to believe (in their ads).
It has only a small receive buffer and will therefore lose packets when
you don't react quickly to interrupts.
It even has some feature to deliver the interrupt earlier than the completion
of the packet, to gain some time. 3com calls it "predictive"...
Rob
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