From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 22 04:40:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA20670 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 04:40:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA20665 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 04:40:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id GAA22715; Wed, 22 May 1996 06:39:05 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199605221139.GAA22715@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: SMC Ultra To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 06:39:05 -0500 (CDT) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605220702.JAA13228@keltia.freenix.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at May 22, 96 09:02:46 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > It seems that Amancio Hasty Jr. said: > > I have a two computers here and I am thinking about connecting them > > using SMC's Ultra . My question is simple if I connect the > > two SMC's Ultra directly with a UTP cable will I be able to get > > 100MB/sec? Or will I have to get a fancy hub. > > I think you can do without a hub. Just take a cable with crossed wires. SMC Ultra's, as far as I am aware, are 10Mbps cards. At least, all of mine are. :-) You can trivially connect these with a crossover cable. SMC EtherPower 10/100's (PCI) are 10Mbps/100Mbps cards. I believe you may be able to connect these with a crossover cable too, but I don't know for sure. There aren't any 1000Mbps (100MB/s) cards out yet, but there is a good chance that there will be a standard in the not too distant future, as it is being discussed by a number of major networking companies. In any case, the Ultras will not give you 100Mbps or 100MB/s :-) I wouldn't wanna see an ISA bus try to handle 100MB/s anyways. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968