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From: nuggets@bluesprings.in-brb.de (Lars Hentschke)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Which 100baseT network card is the best?
Date: 3 Apr 1996 06:43:35 GMT
Organization: Brandenburg Individual Network e.V.
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thomas (thomas@dircon.co.uk) wrote:
: We're going to buy some 100baseT network cards for the FreeBSD 2.1,
: but don't know which one is the best. Can anybody tell me about this
: ? Please mail to thomas@dircon.co.uk

I have connected 12 Pentium 90 as clients and 1 Pentium 133 as server
over a SMC TigerHub and SMC Etherpower 10/100. 
The constellation is very impressive.

I would prefer for 10Base a SMC Elite Ultra and for 100Base 
SMC Etherpower 10/100.

:) 

No, i am not currently working for SMC.

Lars.