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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: TCP Tuning?
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 12:47:36 +0100 (MET)
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> > Get a better ethernet card... the ne2k's have a poor performance in
> > general because they don't have any on-card RAM to store packets. Get
> > either a SMC card or one of the DEC DC21040 based cards.

Just for the records... There are PCI-based ne2000 clones, which
sell for approx US$60 here. Programmed I/O on the PCI bus should not be
slow at all.

	Luigi
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