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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!mozo.cc.purdue.edu!hillres142.cc.purdue.edu!willey From: willey@hillres142.cc.purdue.edu (Mark Willey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Performance of Ethernet cards? Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 9 Oct 1995 16:31:28 GMT Organization: Purdue University Lines: 14 Message-ID: <45bip0$8fv@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <4538ak$66c@hubcap.clemson.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hillres142.cc.purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1126 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:7011 Robert L. Moose Jr. (rmoose@ces.clemson.edu) wrote: : (Sorry for the crosspost, but I'm running NetBSD now and plan to : bring up a couple of FreeBSD systems soon in a lab here.) : Which of the supported ISA Ethernet cards is/are considered to : have the best performance? Which should I avoid? What experience : have folks had with PCI Ethernet cards (is the DECchip the only : one that's supported?) so far? I dunno about best performance, but I have been happy with my SMC cards. I have an ISA and a PCI. Mark