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From: raj@cup.hp.com (Rick Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FDDI Card support for 2.1: WHICH ONE?
Date: 6 Feb 1996 21:14:21 GMT
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Paul Flores (pflores@phoenix.net) wrote:
: Does anyone have some practical experience with FDDI and FreeBSD? I'm
: planning to implement a nice, fast NFS server, and would really like to
: have my BSD machines mount the drive directly on the Ring.

I cannot vouch for it, but I believe there are some netperf numbers in
the database for FreeBSD using a Digital FDDI card.

   http://www.cup.hp.com/netperf/NetperfPage.html

rick jones