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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-stkh.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!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: Minimum machine for nameservice? Date: 23 Oct 1996 09:18:49 GMT Organization: Nethelp Consulting, Trondheim, Norway Lines: 15 Message-ID: <54kntp$jks@verdi.nethelp.no> References: <chad-1710962353430001@sverige.pengar.com> <54970g$c8@uriah.heep.sax.de> <54i6dc$1ro@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: aun.uninett.no In-reply-to: brian@anorak.coverform.lan's message of 22 Oct 1996 11:07:40 +0100 [Brian Somers] | Interrestingly enough, the best throughput of any 10Mb ISA NICs I've | had was through a Trust NE2000 clone - 800k/second sustained via ftp. | The machine wasn't doing anything else though - so I guess I didn't | care that the CPU was doing everything. I've also had similar results with NE2000 clones - they work very well for me, and are more than fast enough. (Yes, in my "serious" machines I use 21x40 based cards, but it's hard to beat the price of an NE2000 clone if you just want to connect two cheap machines...) Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no