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Date:      Wed, 6 Mar 1996 12:47:36 +0100 (MET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Cc:        gpalmer@freebsd.org, jeff@tad.cetlink.net, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: TCP Tuning?
Message-ID:  <199603061147.MAA08172@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <199603060507.PAA23151@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Mar 6, 96 03:36:58 pm

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> > Get a better ethernet card... the ne2k's have a poor performance in
> > general because they don't have any on-card RAM to store packets. Get
> > either a SMC card or one of the DEC DC21040 based cards.

Just for the records... There are PCI-based ne2000 clones, which
sell for approx US$60 here. Programmed I/O on the PCI bus should not be
slow at all.

	Luigi
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Luigi Rizzo                     Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
email: luigi@iet.unipi.it       Universita' di Pisa
tel: +39-50-568533              via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy)
fax: +39-50-568522              http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/
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