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At 03:55 PM 4/26/97 -0700, David Greenman wrote:
>>Now I assume that this machine has a rather heavy overhead with all of the
>>users
>>and disk activity....do you have any estimates of the impact of this on the
>>overall
>>networking throughput? Obviously the SCSI activity is going to suck up much
>>bus bandwidth.....
>
>   The numbers are packet sends/receives to user processes throught the
>TCP/IP stack. I would expect the packet forwording capability to be much
>greater. The majority of the CPU time is spent doing file related things,
>not networking.
>
>>As for the Intel Pro/100B ...is this a 10/100MB device? Does it have
separate
>>TP connectors, or 1? Are there any clones that are supported, or any
versions
>>of it that are not supported?
>
>   10/100, one connection, one vendor. The one vendor is a good thing,
>however, because the design isn't "pot luck" and the device driver is
>much less complicated as well. Or in other words, good for users, bad
>for Intel haters. The chip is available from Intel for people if they
>want to make clone cards, however.

Thats good....and I've seen them for $139. (a good price?), which isn't
bad at all. I did notice that its a rather long card, which may be an
issue.....

Dennis
>
>-DG
>
>David Greenman
>Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
>
>
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