[rescue] Re: Fast Ethernet vs. SS2

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Monday, November 11, 2002 at 16:46:16 (-0600), Bill Bradford wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Re: Fast Ethernet vs. SS2
>
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 02:26:26PM -0800, Robert Novak wrote:
> > Bigmac support went away in some recent Solaris release (2.6 maybe?) but
> > should still be there in Linux and *BSD.
> 
> Yeah - wasnt supported under anything newer than 2.6.
> 
> and what a crappy card it was, too.. half-duplex. ew.

An SS2 can't very well do anything really useful with a full-duplex
card, so why bother?  Half-duplex is more than fast enough for the poor
little computer!

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