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From: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@geli.com>
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To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject: Re: best performance hardware
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|> My hardware vendor will throw in NE-2000 clones free, but from what I've 
|> read on this list, they will take a lot of CPU to drive.  Do I need PCI 
|> Ethernet boards, or will good ISA boards be enough (i.e. will I be able 
|> to run at full Ethernet speed with a 3c509?)
|
|Considering the price and performance of the SMC DC21040 based cards
|(PCI), I see no reason to go with anything else.  Both David, I and
|wcarchive are happy users of these cards!
|
|					Jordan
|
|


I'm using 3 different vendor's DC21040s  in a 4 cpu cluster, and haven't yet
run into a problem.  The cards are from SMC, Cogent, and Mylex.
The local-store-on-the-shelf price ranges from $130 to $150; $119 from
Rodney sounds like a good deal.

Has anybody sprung for the 2 card + cable SMC 21140 demo package?
Does that chip work yet?  (Yes that's a "1", 21140).  From Matt's message
it sounded like any day now.

Cheers,
Russell