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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 23:09:55 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jaime Bozza <wheelman@nuc.net>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Driver Question
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On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Doug White wrote:

> The 900 is 10/100 as well, if I remember correctly.  The 905 may be
> better.  (It may have less cache because the PCI bus is probed faster than
> the ISA bus is...)

The 900 is straight 10, the 905 is 10/100 ...  (Interestingly enough, the
10/100 cards have special pricing right now from what I've seen)

> The Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B is supported quite well in FreeBSD; also
> any DE21x4x based cards (Kingston, SMC, Accton, Dayna, others) work very
> nicely.  

Got the same recommendation from someone else.  Thanks. :)

> Is there a requirement for 100mbit?  The EtherExpress is known to work at
> 100 megabit.

No requirement at this time, other than the fact that 10/100 cards have
better pricing right now, and it'll allow me a better upgrade path at the
point that I *DO* put parts of my system at 100Mbit.

Jaime Bozza
Nucleus Communications, Inc.