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Re:What's the max speed on Ethernet? by fulafel on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @07:30AM (#6514116)
This is only true for very basic Ethernet hardware. Various interrupt mitigation schemes came along in the late 90s along with gigabit ethernet. Even low-end Realtek gigabit chips have various segmentation offload and interrupt coalescing features these days.
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Re:What's the max speed on Ethernet? by acdha on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @07:42AM (#6514162)
Those schemes have varying levels of effectiveness. I personally experienced this wasn't a given even as late as the 2005-2010 era, when our purchases were shifted towards certain models specifically due to the issues with drivers or buffer limits.

I learned never to underestimate how much functionality a major vendor will be willing to cut if it saves $.10 per unit shipped…

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