> I know it's a big cpu time consumer. And I could switch to 3Com
> EtherLink III (ISA) but I don't think it'll help a lot. I'll try in the
You want to get off ISA, even to low end PCI bus masters (just avoid NE2K PCI
clones)
> ah... how speedy? I think a 450mhz is quite a runner. and the 100mhz fsb
> improves a lot.
I dont see CPU as the bottleneck right now. It is after all running half the
machine at 8Mhz while you have PIO ISA cards to argue with
> here's ifconfig from a fresh boot, but I had _a lot_ of numbers in the
> frame section. and collisions to. hmm..those numbers are big just for the
> ISA adapters and backbone/eth1. I've talked with some friends and we
> agreed that bad cabling is responsible for collisions. but frames? huh..
Framing errors would be similar
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