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Article #1349Re: Fastest ethernet cards?
From: morris-kwok
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:04
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:04
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In article <726958035rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org> rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel) writes: >In article <1993Jan12.205307.26864@ldp.com> rolfe@ldp.com writes: >>I'm integrating an EISA machine on which I plan to run Lanserver 3.0. In the >>collective wisdom of the net, what is the fastest ethernet card available >>that is supported by OS/2 (It needs to be a 10base-T card)? > >I have good experiences with 3COM EtherLink III cards. These are >16-bit ISA cards but are EISA aware. That means using a utility you >can turn it into an EISA mode so you don't have to set anything more >and the card automatically configures during run of the EISA setup >program (there are EISA config files included on the driver disk). > >I have recently built three EISA machines with these cards and tested >them in ISA one too. They work fine and seem to be pretty fast. I have >measured a throughput of 430...480 k/sec between two OS/2 machines >running LAN Manager while copying large (>1MB) files. > >The ELNK3 comes in two variants with external transceiver connector >and either a coax or twisted pair connector. > >Kai Uwe Rommel > One point for the Etherlink III: there is no OS/2 ODI driver for this 3c509 come with. I cannot make it to work with the Netware Requester for OS/2 2.0. But this may not affect you as you are using LanMan.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!usenet From: morris-kwok@cuhk.hk Subject: Re: Fastest ethernet cards? Message-ID: <1993Jan21.070458.5686@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk> Sender: usenet@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk Nntp-Posting-Host: mac6044.csc.cuhk.hk Organization: The Chinese University of Hong Kong References: <1993Jan12.205307.26864@ldp.com> <726958035rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:04:58 GMT Lines: 27