Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 21:25:19 -0700 From: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@geli.com> To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: best performance hardware Message-ID: <199504070425.VAA02020@geli.clusternet>
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|> My hardware vendor will throw in NE-2000 clones free, but from what I've |> read on this list, they will take a lot of CPU to drive. Do I need PCI |> Ethernet boards, or will good ISA boards be enough (i.e. will I be able |> to run at full Ethernet speed with a 3c509?) | |Considering the price and performance of the SMC DC21040 based cards |(PCI), I see no reason to go with anything else. Both David, I and |wcarchive are happy users of these cards! | | Jordan | | I'm using 3 different vendor's DC21040s in a 4 cpu cluster, and haven't yet run into a problem. The cards are from SMC, Cogent, and Mylex. The local-store-on-the-shelf price ranges from $130 to $150; $119 from Rodney sounds like a good deal. Has anybody sprung for the 2 card + cable SMC 21140 demo package? Does that chip work yet? (Yes that's a "1", 21140). From Matt's message it sounded like any day now. Cheers, Russell
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