On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > You want to get off ISA, even to low end PCI bus masters (just avoid NE2K PCI
> > clones)
>
> I have a 400MHz Celeron UP here which is running at 100% when sending 10
> MBits/sec with an EISA card (cs89x0).
Unless the cs89x0 driver is doing something unusual, or you application is
CPU hungry, that sounds a little off. We could saturate a 10Mbps Ethernet
with a 386.
> With a PCI NIC (3c905) it will do 100Mbits/sec at 60% CPU.
Also high: you should be able to drive at least two, almost three, 100Mbps
channels with a P5-100.
Donald Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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