Re: Tulip PCI ethernet cards

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From: Craig Miller
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 00:00

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Andrew Mc.Ghee (mcghee@sun.mech.uq.edu.au) wrote:
: If you are after a working 100Mb/s card, I have heard that the SMC
: 9332DST 21140-A cards work well with the tulip driver (these are the
: cards that the author of the tulip driver actually uses).
: 
: We would be interested to hear how you (or anyone else who uses SMC
: cards), get on with these cards.
: We are presently achieving a throughput of 0.5KBytes/second, but this
: improves with each new release of the tulip drivers.
: 
I have an smc 8432 DC21040 (10Mbps) and according to ncftp, I get
about 1Mb/sec between a pentium & a 486/100 using the tulip driver.
I bought my card cod for $120 from a redfern 'warehouse', which
posts to aus.ads.forsale.computers.

cm
-- 
That's our advantage at Microsoft; we set the standards and we can change them.
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From: cam@orion.apana.org.au (Craig Miller)
Subject: Re: Tulip PCI ethernet cards
Date: 1997/03/11
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