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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 12:33:08 -0700 (MST)
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To: Benjamin Greenwald <beng@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: New vx driver (Re: vx device (3c905-100mb) )
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I have heard that those cards are architecturally unimpressive. What type
of performance do you expect? I have heard they are slower than the DECs
and Intels, especially for NFS traffic. Any comments?

Kevin

On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Benjamin Greenwald wrote:

> I might as well take this as an opportunity to announce that a new vx driver 
> is under development.  I just received the technical docs from 3Com and should 
> have a good amount of time to sit down and hack this coming week.
> 
> -Ben Greenwald
> 
> > The man page for the 'vx' device only mentions 10Mb support (in 2.2.2).
> > Has this device been updated to support 100mbit yet? And if not is anyone
> > working on updating it? I have time to work on the driver, but have done
> > (very) little driver programming.
> > I would like to run it at 100mbit-full-duplex, but it does not appear to
> > be fully supported in this configuration.
> > -James Flemer
> >  <flemer@tiger.acsu.k12.vt.us>
> > 
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