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From: nuggets@bluesprings.in-brb.de (Lars Hentschke)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 100Mb Ethernet cards ?
Date: 6 Mar 1996 09:08:51 +0100
Organization: Brandenburg Individual Network e.V.
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Jim McGrady (jimm@fcs.wa.gov.au) wrote:

: Where can I find a list of 100base T 100Mbit PCI ethernet cards which are
: supported in FreeBSD 2.1 ?

I'm using 14 SMC Etherpower 100, over TwistedPair connected to a SMC
TigerHUB-16.

ftp between two P90  = 2.5MB/s
ftp between two P133 = 3.8MB/s

many nfs-requests from 12 P90 to a P133 performs an "overall-throughput"
of 7.5MB/s !!!

I'm very imressed.

Lars.