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From: bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu (M. L. Dodson)
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SMC Plug-n-pray are about $90-$95 without heroic efforts hunting
down the best deal.  I don't know about the 3c509 survival.  The
2.1.5R machine which had the net hang was quiescent most of the 
time during the period in which it died.  Let me emphasize that
it worked well enough to install 2.1.5 via an ftp connection and
during my subsequent configuration efforts.  Also, ifconfig'ing
the interface down, then back up, restored it for awhile.
Bud Dodson

> 
> On Tue, 27 Aug 1996 13:23:30 -0700 (PDT),
> owner-questions-digest@freefall.freebsd.org wrote:
> 
> >I agree these cards are probably OK (or at least as OK as it gets)
> >under Win/DOS.  Due to the driver quality, I buy $25 NE2000 clones 
> >for noncritical ISA machines (and for home use), SMC cards for more 
> >critical ISA boxes and will buy DEC chip PCI cards for servers in 
> >the future.
> 
> How are the SMC cards price wise? At work they bought a box (25 I
> think) so they got a good discount.
> 
> I plugged a 3C509 today into a FreeBSD box, turned plug and play, and
> the card has been working ok (just installed it today though). On a
> 56K line I am getting 4K to 5K average. I think that for such network
> bandwith almost any card should be fine. :)
> 
> 

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M. L. Dodson                                bdodson@scms.utmb.edu
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