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From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Minimum machine for nameservice?
Date: 23 Oct 1996 10:01:50 -0700
Organization: Hewlett Packard Sonoma County
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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.
> The machine wasn't doing anything else though - so I guess I didn't
> care that the CPU was doing everything.
For home use, and for many clients, the NE2000 clones do a great
job. I, too, have seen 800KB+/sec (sustained) with ftp, but this was on
a quiescent home LAN.
However, I definitely wouldn't use an NE2000 clone on an
heavily-used server.
-- Darryl Okahata
Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com
DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not
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little green men that have been following him all day.