What does "Tigon3" mean?

Fri Feb 5 10:10:37 UTC 2010

On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 02:24 -0500, Michael Haney wrote:

> Broadcom Tigon3 is likely the name of the chipset used in your Ethernet adapter.
> 
> BCM5751M is associated with the Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5751M
> PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet adapter.

You did not explain why there are two different names for the same
thing.

Detlef
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