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Date:      Thu, 26 Feb 1998 08:14:05 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Reinier Bezuidenhout <rbezuide@oskar.nanoteq.co.za>
To:        karl@mcs.net (Karl Denninger)
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au, dg@root.com, freebsd@isvara.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "Best" Fast Ethernet Card
Message-ID:  <199802260615.IAA12839@oskar.nanoteq.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <19980225211459.16323@mcs.net> from Karl Denninger at "Feb 25, 98 09:14:59 pm"

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> On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 07:09:07PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> > > 
> > > The SMC cards *ARE* DEC chipsets.
> > 
> > The new ones aren't.  You should get out more often.  8)
> 
> Hmmm... well, then someone has old stock and that's a good thing :-)
> 
> > (They haven't been for at least the last 6 months.)
> > 
> > > Is there  a difference between the PRO/100B and PRO/100+?
> > 
> > The model number?  Seriously, I believe the 100+ is a reduced 
> > manufacturing cost, backwards-compatible version of the 100B.
> 
> Thanks.  I'll get a few of those in-house and try 'em.  I'm assuming they do
> 10 and 100Mbps?  I really HATE the idea of having to stock two boards, and
> we do use 10Mbps connections for a lot of stuff.
> 

I have been using the PRO/100B in throughput tests and have recently 
started testing the 100+ too.  Both seem excellent and using two PII/266
machines, I get roung about 11410Kbytes/s transfer rates at 100 full-duplex
using ttcp.

Reinier


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