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Date:      Thu, 26 Apr 2001 02:53:05 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@imach.com>
To:        Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
Cc:        Dave VanAuken <dave@hawk-systems.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD w 3C905 cannot connect to/through Cisco 3524XL switch
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104260251350.26017-100000@workhorse.iMach.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010425232622.A29316@rand.tgd.net>

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On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Sean Chittenden wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:30:44PM -0600, Forrest W. Christian wrote:
> > I can't honestly say that the Intel is any better than the cheapies
> > (I haven't had any problems to speak of with either one) but the
> > Intel just "feels" a little better.
> 
> 	If you get a box that's pushing more than 20Mbps of traffic,
> it makes all the difference in the world in terms of dropped frames
> and throughput, however, I can probably safely venture to guess that
> most people will never push a single machine that hard in real life.

That makes sense.   Any machine I expected to have that much traffic
would, of course, have an Intel Card in it..  Anything which does 20Mb/s
has GOT to be mission critical.

- Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) AC7DE
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