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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: 100-baseT hub recommendation?
To: jc@irbs.com (John Capo)
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 10:47:54 -0600 (CST)
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> Dave Andersen writes:
> > 
> > On a related note, we've been purchasing SMC Etherpower 10/100's for our 
> > new FreeBSD boxes in preparation for upgrading a hub to 100baseT, but my 
> > counterpart here feels much more inclined towards using the Intel 
> > 100baseT cards.  I noticed they've slipped in to -stable recently, but 
> > I'd love to hear from someone about how they're working in a production 
> > environment?
> > 
> 
> I put one in a clients web server a few weeks ago and its doing fine.
> Not a real busy server, about .5Gig/day.

I put one in a clients news server a few weeks ago and its doing fine.
Rather busy system, 100-150 nnrp clients, multiple full Usenet feeds..
have not seen any problems.

... JG