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From: Michael Peer <mpeer@rustler.gwc.cccd.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Minimum machine for nameservice?
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:39:56 -0700
Organization: Golden West College
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References: <chad-1710962353430001@sverige.pengar.com> <54i6dc$1ro@anorak.coverform.lan> <54ml5i$b3e@Symiserver2.symantec.com>
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To: tedm@agora.rdrop.com

tedm@agora.rdrop.com wrote:
> 
> In <54i6dc$1ro@anorak.coverform.lan>, brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) writes:
> >In article <54970g$c8@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
> >       j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
> >: I would prefer an SMC8013 over the NE2000, if you've got that choice.
> >: The NE2000 is really sloooow (it doesn't provide shared memory).
> >
> >Interrestingly enough, the best throughput of any 10Mb ISA NICs I've
> >had was through a Trust NE2000 clone - 800k/second sustained via ftp.
> 

For what its worth
I am running a 133 pentium with generic ne2000 cards.  I transfered
about 400MB to another system via ftp and was able to get 
1.1 MB/sec.  This figure was reported by ftp.