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Date:      Thu, 8 Oct 1998 12:35:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Richard Foulk <richard@pegasus.com>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Full duplex ethernet 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02.9810081231000.16487-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <199810080543.WAA01244@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote:
> > Which ether-card drivers currently support full duplex?
> 
> de, fxp, tl, xl, tx at least.  Basically, the high-performance cards.

Bill Paull reports that the RealTek chip supports full duplex as well.

<winter> how about the winbond and liteon?
<Bill_work> They will when I'm done with them.

So, to completly qualify your answer, a number of high-performance cards
and a number of really trashy evil ugly cards.

I wouldn't be surprised if you could get any of the RealTek, Winbond, or
Liteon cards for $10 or $15.

Regarding Mike's bit about 100meg hubs vs. 10meg switches the only reason
I can see for a switch over a hub is if you need SNMP (usually standard on
switches) and you don't want to allow systems on the same network to snoop
eachother.

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