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To: Michael Vernick <vernick@CS.SunySB.EDU>
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Subject: Re: 100-Mbit Ethernet cards 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 06:15:13 -0800
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>>   The SMC 9332 cards (based on DEC DC21140) work quite well - I use
>>them here. I wrote a driver for the Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B
>>recently, and it also works quite well.
>
>>From a recent Network Computing performance test, the SMC cards are
>one of the slowest 100Mbps on the market.  Maximum performance is only
>about 70Mbps.  I believe (I don't have the article in front of me)
>that the Intel cards are on the faster side, up around 80-85Mbps.

   Under what? DOS, Windows? The driver for FreeBSD performs better than
that. It's true that the Intel card performs about 5% better under FreeBSD
on the same CPU, but the actual performance figure is more a function of the
CPU involved than the card.
   YMMV.

-DG

David Greenman
Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project