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From: owen@nosc.mil (Wallace E. Owen)
Subject: Re: 3c90x or DEC 21x40?
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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 03:42:15 GMT
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Big advantage of the DEC chip over the 3Com is in Multicasting.  The
DEC chip has 512 multicast register; the 3Com just has a single bit
telling it to receive or not receive all mcast dgrams.


  // Wally