Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-50,: Re: EtherExpress PRO/100 Intelligent Server Adapter with i960(R) proces sor

# Re: EtherExpress PRO/100 Intelligent Server Adapter with i960(R) proces sor

Michael Alan Dorman (mdorman-linux-kernel@debian.org)
12 Dec 1998 20:50:33 -0500

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R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff) writes:
> Having an extra CPU that can "do" things for you, is pretty
> nice. However its usefulness still has to be seen: Linux doesn't lend
> itself very good for a network card that could do more than just shove
> the packets out of the door. The 82557 can already independently of
> the processor push packets onto the wire.

We could let the i960 do ISL for us.

I've got 3 Novell servers using these cards feeding into a Cisco
Catalyst 5500 using ISL, and during the time when we didn't have an
RSM in the 5500, it was a big lifesaver since we didn't have to do a
one-armed router configuration with our already underpowered 7010.

Mike.

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