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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.cais.net!nntp.uio.no!nntp-oslo.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!not-for-mail From: sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PCI cards supported by 2.1 release Date: 13 Jul 1996 09:32:14 GMT Organization: Nethelp Consulting, Trondheim, Norway Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4s7qeu$9je@verdi.nethelp.no> References: <4ricnq$4c4@news.ci.ua.pt> <4s3q7s$cpf@simcity.LF.net> <4s7n8g$kfv@symiserver2.symantec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trane.uninett.no In-reply-to: tedm@agora.rdrop.com's message of 13 Jul 1996 08:37:36 GMT [tedm@agora.rdrop.com] | I've had several small networks with all ISA cards, (modern cards, not | older ones) and a packet sniffer on them, and I've had no trouble | pushing the 10BaseT Ethernet well past 80% saturation according to the | sniffer. This leads me to the conclusion that a 10baseT PCI network | card is simply a way for network adapter card vendors to make money | off of unsuspecting users. Any decent operating system nowadays should be able to come close to saturating a 10 Mbit/s Ethernet. In that respect ISA cards and PCI cards don't make much of a difference. You *will* see a smaller CPU load with busmastering cards though - for instance the 21040 based cards. I certainly agree that it makes a much bigger difference at 100 Mbit/s. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no