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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 14:02:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: Harlan Stenn <harlan@mail.compus.com>
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Subject: Re: For ISA and ethernet, what's better than an NE2000?
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On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Harlan Stenn wrote:

> For ISA machines, what's better than an NE2000 (or clone) network card?
> 
> I seems like the Intel EtherPro/10+ looks good, as might an NE2100 (Kingston
> has these).
> 
> I'm looking for a better card and I'd also like to know that the FreeBSD driver
> for the card is good, too.
> 
> What do folks recommend?
> 
> (I'm trying to avoid NE2000 cards because I'm tired of cranking down the NFS
> read and write sizes to 1024 when I use those cards).
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> H
> 
> 
> 

  For ISA cards, look for something with shared memory.  The SMC Ultra/16
is good with 16KB of shared-memory.  The newer SMC EtherEZ 16 isn't as
good, because it only has 8KB of shared-memory :(.  

  The SMC Ultra/16 uses the ed drive, and is reliable.

Tom