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In <01bc5901$ab76f2f0$88e402cb@stodp200>, "Duncan Stodart" <stodart@zeta.org.au> writes:


]Michael Bournazos <mbourna@ibm.net> wrote in article
]<336c3a42.2038551@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net>...

]> I'm lookng at some cheap NE2000 clones - Sky2000 cards by SkyMaster.

]> Has anyone used these cards?  Any comments on how well behaved they
]> are?

]I've got these cards (I've chucked the box, and the floppy disk is VERY
]vague in its labelling, so I'm not absolutly 100% certain).  They are plug
]and play and whilst I have not used them much under LINUX, I've had no
]problems.  I configured the addresss for the NE2000 driver according the
]the parameters the Windows '95 driver used on boot up.

I have a pair of ACCTON NICs that I used to think worked well for OS/2 and
    Linux. They are certainly trouble-free. However, when I put a 2 gb 
    disk drive on one machine and wanted some throughput, i found the 
    cards lacking.

It would be useful for people who have matched-pairs to do some throughput
    testing & post results.

I'd suggest files of 10Mb or more, copied by ftp and nfs as a useful 
    starting point.

I'm still using one of the ACCTON NICs: it's on a  machine where its lack 
    of performance isn't an issue. I used to get about 350K/sec 
    under Linux & OS/2. Between the others (one only runs OS/2) I get 
    about twice that using a Kingston PCI combo in one, an Alloy (Danpex) 
    ISA NE2000 clone in the other. Between the machines with the Alloy & 
    ACCTON NICs under Linux I get about 350K/sec.

In each case timing is as reported by ftp.


Cheers
John Summerfield
Warped & Connected
Perth, Western Australia
OS2 support @ http://www.iinet.net.au/~summer/
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