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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!Symiserver2.symantec.com!news From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Minimum machine for nameservice? Date: 24 Oct 1996 02:44:02 GMT Organization: Symantec Corp. Lines: 13 Message-ID: <54ml5i$b3e@Symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <chad-1710962353430001@sverige.pengar.com> <54i6dc$1ro@anorak.coverform.lan> Reply-To: tedm@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: shiva1.central.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 In <54i6dc$1ro@anorak.coverform.lan>, brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) writes: >In article <54970g$c8@uriah.heep.sax.de>, > j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >: I would prefer an SMC8013 over the NE2000, if you've got that choice. >: The NE2000 is really sloooow (it doesn't provide shared memory). > >Interrestingly enough, the best throughput of any 10Mb ISA NICs I've >had was through a Trust NE2000 clone - 800k/second sustained via ftp. I found the same thing and I tested a bunch of them. I've yet to post the test results, though. In this day of clock-quadrupled CPU's, that doesen't seem to matter.