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At 08:20 PM 2/23/99 , Mike Smith wrote:
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>I'm informed it's not working at this time; you should talk to David 
>Greenman (copied) about it to be sure.

Hmmm.. A shame.  Are their any alternatives ?  I am in need of building an
ethernet router and was hoping a few dual ported Fast-E cards would help me
get around some hardware limitiations.  Would not 2 such a cards
theoretically and practically perform better than 4 individual cards ?

	---Mike
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