On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 07:43:19 +0200, Daniel de Kok <daniel@mindbender.nowhere> wrote:
>
>Wrong, it does because of the chip itself. The NIC chip does not support
>many important performace features that offload CPU usage[1], besides that
>the design is essentially flawed[2].
>
>[1] http://www.fefe.de/linuxeth/
>[2] http://www.fefe.de/linuxeth/realtek.txt

That is not evidence, just an anonymous anecdote, you've done no
research at all, have you?

RTL-8139 != RTL-8139C or later.

--Grant.