Re: Loosing packets with Dlink DFE-580TX and SMC 9462TX

From: Ben Greear (greearb@candelatech.com)
Date: Fri Jun 07 2002 - 01:24:13 EST

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Isn't the DFE-580tx a 4-port 10/100bt NIC? If so, why the
talk about Gigabit speed?

ET Sales wrote:

> At 07:56 PM 6/3/02 -0400, you wrote:
>
> Uh..aren't those 32-bit cards? There isn't enough bus bandwidth on a
> 32bit PCI bus to do gigabit, so its more likely that the cards are
> overrunning their buffers....
>
> Dennis

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