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From: Metod Kozelj <metod.kozelj@rzs-hm.si>
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Dual host SCSI ? Pointers please...
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 17:53:01 +0100
Organization: Hydrometeorological Institute of Slovenia
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Daniel Ts'o wrote:

>         If I could find a way using Fast Ethernet of getting, say,
> 5Mbyte/sec from DOS to Linux/FreeBSD I would consider that too.

100BaseTX ethernet offers (theoretically of course) about 10Mbps
throughput. So, in practice, you shouldn't have much problems to get
5Mbps. I think the only problem could arise on DOS side, if it couldn't
deal with that large flow of data from/to net adapter.

-- 
Metod Kozelj

e-mail: Metod.Kozelj@rzs-hm.si
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