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From: thomas@lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Fastest ether card FreeBSD supports?
Date: 18 Sep 1994 17:53:51 GMT
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In article <34g9tr$gl8@newstand.syr.edu>, smcarey@rodan.syr.edu (Shawn M Carey) writes:
|>	I was wondering if anyone could tell me what is the fastest
|>network card that's supported on FreeBSD?  Bus type is not an issue,
|>as the system is still being spec'ed.  Any suggestions will be
|>appreciated.

Using the DEC DE435 PCI card, I can get 1.1MB/sec using ttcp.c with
about 80% idle left over.  This is on a DECpc XL 466d2 with 32MB.  
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Matt Thomas                          Internet:   thomas@lkg.dec.com
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