Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Mar 2001 13:43:31 -0800 (PST) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: New gigabit cards |
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On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Gregory Maxwell 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.
Thats the hardware FIFO size. The chained descriptors can of course handle much larger data.
FWIW 10/100 chips usually only have 32-128 bytes hardware FIFO, so 32kbytes hardware FIFO is pretty generous.
-Dan
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