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Date:      Fri, 5 Jan 1996 12:38:17 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>
To:        Martin Cracauer <cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What choice of 100 mbps Ethernet boards?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.960105123459.1633C-100000@terra>
In-Reply-To: <9601051156.AA25157@wavehh.hanse.de>

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> Could someone drop me a note what performance I can expect? I'm
> considering setting up a tiny (IP-only) subnet with 100mbps for the
> machines that are capable and I want to use a FreeBSD machine as a
> hub.

with the smc cards, and the old neptune chipset in a cluster of 16 
machines, grand junction hub: 

50 mbits/second tops, but it's easy to get there with small blocks (i.e. 
4096 bytes or more). I'm happy. So is my cluster.

ron



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