Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 08:14:05 +0200 (SAT) From: Reinier Bezuidenhout <rbezuide@oskar.nanoteq.co.za> To: karl@mcs.net (Karl Denninger) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, dg@root.com, freebsd@isvara.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Best" Fast Ethernet Card Message-ID: <199802260615.IAA12839@oskar.nanoteq.co.za> In-Reply-To: <19980225211459.16323@mcs.net> from Karl Denninger at "Feb 25, 98 09:14:59 pm"
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> On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 07:09:07PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > The SMC cards *ARE* DEC chipsets. > > > > The new ones aren't. You should get out more often. 8) > > Hmmm... well, then someone has old stock and that's a good thing :-) > > > (They haven't been for at least the last 6 months.) > > > > > Is there a difference between the PRO/100B and PRO/100+? > > > > The model number? Seriously, I believe the 100+ is a reduced > > manufacturing cost, backwards-compatible version of the 100B. > > Thanks. I'll get a few of those in-house and try 'em. I'm assuming they do > 10 and 100Mbps? I really HATE the idea of having to stock two boards, and > we do use 10Mbps connections for a lot of stuff. > I have been using the PRO/100B in throughput tests and have recently started testing the 100+ too. Both seem excellent and using two PII/266 machines, I get roung about 11410Kbytes/s transfer rates at 100 full-duplex using ttcp. Reinier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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