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From: bluewiz@cts.com (Bob and/or Perry Mack)
Subject: Re: 3c509 or SMC Elite Ultra
Organization: CTS Network Services (CTSNET), San Diego, CA
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 12:58:11 GMT
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In article <gbuchanan.3.0DF0D6AA@tbu.shl.com> gbuchanan@tbu.shl.com (Gardner Buchanan) writes:
>From: gbuchanan@tbu.shl.com (Gardner Buchanan)
>Subject: Re: 3c509 or SMC Elite Ultra
>Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 22:47:40 GMT

>ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) writes:

>>James Seng (jseng@technet.sg) wrote:
>>: Mikhail Teterin (mi@cs.bu.edu) wrote:
>>: : I gave up on the 3c509 and took Intell's EtherExpress which only works
>>: : thru the multi-pin connector for me, but works...

>>: I give up on my 3c509 too and stick to the plain old 3c503 (yea 8bit 
>>: but at least it _WORK_ 8P)

>>What seems to be the problem?  With 2.0.5R my 3c509 worked right
>>out of the box and this machine gets a lot of network traffic
>>(200-300k web hits/day).  It hasn't given me the slightest trouble.

I must agree...I just built a multihomed machine w/ TWO 3c509s and
(once I change sysconfig for the second card) everything just worked.


bob mack
bluewiz@cts.com