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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!newshub.nosc.mil!news!owen From: owen@nosc.mil (Wallace E. Owen) Subject: Re: 3c90x or DEC 21x40? Message-ID: <1997Apr21.034215.16043@nosc.mil> Sender: news@nosc.mil Organization: NCCOSC RDT&E Division, San Diego, CA References: <5imkmt$c8d@newnews.onramp.net> <5iohak$bki$1@phoenix.kfu.com> <CASTOR.97Apr12123927@drizzle.stanford.edu> <5jb0ap$h5d@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 03:42:15 GMT Lines: 6 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39429 Big advantage of the DEC chip over the 3Com is in Multicasting. The DEC chip has 512 multicast register; the 3Com just has a single bit telling it to receive or not receive all mcast dgrams. // Wally