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From: rcarter@best.com (Russell Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: fastest ethernet card alive
Date: 1 Aug 1995 09:28:09 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. (info@best.com)
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References: <3vjort$bn5@case.cyberspace.com> <3vkhjd$eej@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
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In article <3vkhjd$eej@gate.sinica.edu.tw>,
Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> wrote:
>In article <3vjort$bn5@case.cyberspace.com>, Jack Valko <valko@case.cyberspace.com> wrote:
>>
>>I'm looking to use FreeBSD as a router and I need to know what the
>>fastest ethernet card alive is that works with 2.05. ISA? PCI?
>>Also, are there any fddi or 100BT cards that are compatible?
>
> I believe DEC sells both 100Mbps Ethernet and FDDI cards for
>PCI machines. FreeBSD drivers are available for both.
But I am having a great deal of trouble getting the DEC cards to
work with 9 month old Plato motherboards. The two I installed
had 1 DOA and one fails when it tries to read its hardware address
at initialization. On the other hand, the SMC 9332 NIC works
fine, on a direct connect cable. Tomorrow I hope to have
some progress running them through a Bay Networks (nee Synoptics)
28115 switch.
The 100BASE-TX (direct connect) performance is excellent, check out
http://www.geli.com/data/net.perf.html
for the gory details.
Russell
rcarter@geli.com
http://www.geli.com
>--
>Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
>taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org