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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!news1.digital.com!pa.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!lkg.dec.com!thomas From: thomas@lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Best/Best Supported Ethernet NIC for FreeBSD 2.x Date: 29 Aug 1995 21:18:09 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 19 Sender: thomas@netrix.lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas) Distribution: world Message-ID: <42006h$oka@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> References: <gbuchanan.6.0023FA05@shl.com> Reply-To: thomas@lkg.dec.com NNTP-Posting-Host: netrix.enet.dec.com X-Newsreader: mxrn 6.18-30 In article <gbuchanan.6.0023FA05@shl.com>, gbuchanan@shl.com (Gardner Buchanan) writes: |>In my application I can't currently make use of the 100MB/s |>since the traffic I'm switching is on a 10MBs network, but |>features like large on-card FIFOs and high quality analogue |>designs are wanted. Am I likely to find that the DEC based |>100Mbs cards will yeild 10Mbs performance superior to 10MBs |>only designs? Not really. The 10/100 cards operate no better (and no worse) than the 10Mb/s only cards. I don't think you'll find anything under FreeBSD (or NetBSD) that'll perform better than the DC21040/DC21140/DC21041 based NICs. -- Matt Thomas Internet: thomas@lkg.dec.com U*X Networking WWW URL: http://ftp.dec.com/%7Ethomas/ Digital Equipment Corporation Disclaimer: This message reflects my Littleton, MA own warped views, etc.