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Subject: Re: Decent network cards for 100Mbit?
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> My only complaint about the EEPro 100B cards is paying Intel $65 for
> a card that has a single $4 chip on it.  Bleh.  Plus, the performance
> I've seen hasn't been all that stellar, but I may be doing something
> wrong.  I haven't really tried tuning the system much yet, just doing
> some simple throughput tests using ftp and tcpblast.

Performance from these cards should be very good. I was able to receive a
full 100 Mbps with one of these cards in a P-133 running 3.0-970124-SNAP,
ie. more than two years ago.

To *send* a full 100 Mbps you need slightly more CPU, say a P-166.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no


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