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Subject: Re: obtaining 3COM 3C589C PC-CARDs 
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> I'll gladly swap a 3c589c for any of the PAO supported PCCARD 
> network cards (see http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/PAO).  My impression 
> of their performance is somewhat lacking (~200k/sec on average).

Woah!?

I 've done some benchmarking and I'm getting on my Thinkpad 701C something
like 700K/sec with my 3C589B.

Basically I've done a huge FTP download of one big file (to eliminate
costs of setting up and tearing down TCP connections) and the local file
name isa  symlink to /dev/null (eliminate costs of writing to the hard
drive since both the hard drive and the pcmcia card are interrupt driven).

Am I seeing spurious data or is this about right?

Ben.