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Re:Wi-Fi packet capturing on M1 Macs is broken by Bluecobra on Thursday April 29, 2021 @10:34PM (#26989317)
> Broadcom chips aren't very well regarded in PC Gaming or Server enthusiast markets either

I always thought that it was funny that their NICs are much to be desired yet their ASICs power a wide variety of enterprise network switches capable of moving terabits of traffic at low latency.

https://people.ucsc.edu/~warner/buffer.html

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Re:Wi-Fi packet capturing on M1 Macs is broken by spiznnx on Friday April 30, 2021 @12:40AM (#26989874)
Broadcom has been through so many mergers and acquisitions that I doubt the two product lines have much DNA in common.
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Re:Wi-Fi packet capturing on M1 Macs is broken by wmf on Friday April 30, 2021 @01:15AM (#26990016)
Even Broadcom's wired NICs have different generations that came from different acquisitions: Tigon3 (tg3) came from Alteon AceNIC, I forgot where NetExtreme 2 (bnx2) came from, and NetExteme E (bnxt) is an in-house effort that is somewhat derived from the StrataXGS switches.

So yeah, Broadcom is a rollup of two dozen different companies so the quality of one product tells you nothing about others.

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Re:Wi-Fi packet capturing on M1 Macs is broken by TwoBit on Friday April 30, 2021 @12:21AM (#26989791)
If people keep buying their crap then why would they be motivated to fix it?
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