On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 04:58:09PM -0700, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >Among other things, its load on the CPU when under heavy traffic load. > >Certain cards implement a minimal hardware set and do most of their > >processing in the driver software. The size of the buffers also plays a > >role in how heavy loads are handled, e.g., when packets are dropped. > >-Roberto > > > Thank you, this was the kind of info I was looking for. I take it the 3COM > does a better job of off-loading processing than the Intel does? >
A better way to put is *not* off-loading. That is, more processing is done by the card and less by the CPU. My understanding is that 3COM cards have more onboard hardware processing, but I have not looked into Intel cards in a few years. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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