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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
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Subject: Re: What choice of 100 mbps Ethernet boards?
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taob@io.ORG (Brian Tao) wrote:

>On Thu, 4 Jan 1996, Greg Lehey wrote:
>>
>> I'm still working on the Installation book (anybody who's interested,
>> *please* review!), and it occurred to me that there's little direction
>> in choosing 100 mbps network boards.  Can anybody suggest something
>> that works well?

>    I just picked up five SMC 9332 PCI controllers (built around the
>DEC21140) in December and they worked right out of the box with our
>ASUS P55TP4XEG motherboards.  Plugged one of them into a spare 100Mbps
>port on our etherswitch and was able to do the OS installation without
>a hiccup.  I've had a tiny bit of trouble with the cards when plugged
>into a 10-Mbps switch, but I'll post about that separately.

Could someone drop me a note what performance I can expect? I'm
considering setting up a tiny (IP-only) subnet with 100mbps for the
machines that are capable and I want to use a FreeBSD machine as a
hub.

I'd like to have some data about maximum troughput and the CPU cycles
used on the router.

Thanks for any data.

Happy Hacking
	Martin
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