From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Dec 15 08:59:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA20002 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 08:59:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA19980 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 08:59:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id JAA16932; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 09:59:16 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19981215095742.06e2a490@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 09:58:41 -0700 To: Jamie Bowden , Mike Smith From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Good, cheap 100BaseT Ethernet cards? Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <199812150232.SAA01836@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org That's 100BaseVG, an alternative 100 Mbps standard. It's better than 100BaseT when the LAN gets congested, but -- like Betamax -- did not win the standards war. --Brett At 08:39 AM 12/15/98 -0500, Jamie Bowden wrote: >On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > >> Not AFAIK. 100bT and ISA just don't get along, and the NE2000 >> programming model is such that you max out at about 10Mbps anyway. > >I have one 100mbit ISA card. It's got a chip with both HP and AT&T's logo >on it. It has two rj-45 ports on it, one for 10mbit, one for 100mbit. >The chip is labled : > >100vg >1821-1400 >9427s 5543540 > >I have no idea who made it, or where it came from, as it was here when I >got here. I've never even put it in a machine to see how well it works, >but it's kinda cool, as I had never seen a 100mbit ISA card before. > >Jamie Bowden > >-- >Systems Administrator, iTRiBE.net > >If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. > -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle) > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message