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Date:      Fri, 05 Jun 1998 13:40:21 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        "Viren R. Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Inter EtherExpress PRO/100+ or 10/100B 
Message-ID:  <199806052040.NAA09723@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Jun 1998 12:29:57 EDT." <199806051629.MAA00332@fault.rstcorp.com> 

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>>From the mailing list archives, it seems that the Intel EtherExpress
>cards have the best driver (fxp). IS there any preference between the
>PRO 100+ and the PRO 10/100B? Is one better than the other? Can they
>both do autonegotiation, and full-duplex (as in does the driver work
>equally well with both cards)?

   They should perform identically. I certainly saw no differences in
performance in my tests here and it's my understanding that the NIC on
the Pro/100+ (82558 chip) is simply an 82557 NIC + 82555 PHY...there
are otherwise no other differences in the logic/design.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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