Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 22:58:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: rcarter@geli.com (Russell L. Carter) Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: best performance hardware Message-ID: <199504070558.WAA06446@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199504070425.VAA02020@geli.clusternet> from "Russell L. Carter" at Apr 6, 95 09:25:19 pm
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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? Can you tell me where you saw this at? I keep putting off ordering a pair of the DEC cards trying to find an alternative board so we can have more brands reported as supported. > Does that chip work yet? (Yes that's a "1", 21140). From Matt's message > it sounded like any day now. The code is not in -current, but Matt thinks he has it working correctly. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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