[Gllug] Recommendations for network card and adsl modem (or router)

[Chris Ball]

>> On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 09:07:14, Doug Winter <doug at pigeonhold.com> said:

   >> One crucial thing for painlessness, AFAIK is to use the userland
   >> speedtouch drivers http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/.

   > I can second (fourth?) that.  Worked first time on Debian woody,
   > and has been flawless since.

What's the latency from these drivers like?  Surely copying every packet
from kernel context to userland and back is bad for your load and speed,
unless they've done something particularly clever and left everything in
kernel context somehow?

*confused*  :-)

- Chris.
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