Reply to post: Re: Silly NIC games ...

Ooh, my machine is SO much faster than yours... Oh, wait, that might be a bit of a problem...

fibrefool
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Re: Silly NIC games ...

does anyone else remember Sun Microsystems and their Ethernet cards that were "aggressively compliant" with the CSMA/CD back-off spec?

meant that on any mixed LAN the Sun machines would out-perform everything else in terms of network I/O.

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