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20 years ago

Anyone used new SMSC LAN9118 MAC/PHY yet?

Hi, Has anyone used new SMSC LAN9118 MAC/PHY yet? It addresses a lot of the shortcomings of the LAN91C111 and should be capable of much better performance. I'm considering it for a new de...
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20 years ago

Hi Louis,

i only wrote the basic driver for the SMSC and made no performance measurements.

At the moment I'm testing the DM9000A from Davicom with integrated TCP/UDP/IP checksum calculation. The first figures look very good. 2.8 MBytes/s in UDP mode (P2P) without any optimization.

Kind regards

joern