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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Cisco 7000?
Date: 18 Sep 1995 02:52:12 GMT
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harverso@beastie.cs.und.ac.za (Tony Harverson ) wrote:
>A little off topic.. but what are the recommended cards for highest
>throughput in a freebsd box (10mb or 100mb) ? 3coms seem to have the
>reutation thing down, But which of these operates the fastest ?

Any of the DEC DC21040 based cards (which SMC also makes) will run rings around
the competition.  We run both the 10Mb and the 100Mb versions and they work
just
dandy..
-- 
						Jordan