Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 06:39:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMC Ultra Message-ID: <199605221139.GAA22715@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199605220702.JAA13228@keltia.freenix.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at May 22, 96 09:02:46 am
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> It seems that Amancio Hasty Jr. said: > > I have a two computers here and I am thinking about connecting them > > using SMC's Ultra . My question is simple if I connect the > > two SMC's Ultra directly with a UTP cable will I be able to get > > 100MB/sec? Or will I have to get a fancy hub. > > I think you can do without a hub. Just take a cable with crossed wires. SMC Ultra's, as far as I am aware, are 10Mbps cards. At least, all of mine are. :-) You can trivially connect these with a crossover cable. SMC EtherPower 10/100's (PCI) are 10Mbps/100Mbps cards. I believe you may be able to connect these with a crossover cable too, but I don't know for sure. There aren't any 1000Mbps (100MB/s) cards out yet, but there is a good chance that there will be a standard in the not too distant future, as it is being discussed by a number of major networking companies. In any case, the Ultras will not give you 100Mbps or 100MB/s :-) I wouldn't wanna see an ISA bus try to handle 100MB/s anyways. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968
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