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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is the 3COM 3c509 etherlink III (ISA) supported?
Date: 24 Dec 1996 12:12:22 GMT
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Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com> wrote:

> Could someone please confirm (or deny) that the latest SNAP supports the
> 3COM 3c509 etherlink III (ISA).  If so, is it only supported if it is

As well (or as bad) as it used to be supported for quite a long time.
I had to assemble a router for a customer recently with two 3c509's,
and the cards seem to stumple every now and then when trying a
continuous multi-megabyte stream routing over it.  However, they
unwedge themselves after a second.  The overall TCP rate over both
cards was ~ 180 KB/s (that's not very much indeed).

> taken out of plug and play mode, and will I need a DOS machine to do
> this? 

I seem to remember that you gotta do this.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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