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sconnell@dipix.com (Shawn Douglas Connelly) wrote:

>I am planing the purchase of a 100base-T switch.
>
>Hopefully, there exists an Ethernet switch with two 100Base-T ports
>and four 10Base-T ports.
>
>I plan to segment my current four 10Base-T concentrators into the
>100Base-T switch and run the two 100Base-T ports out to my two servers
>(Novell 4.10 file server / NT 4.1 application and internet server).

Shawn,

sorry, I don't know about this one, but I hope someone else will
chime in with the information. The only thing I do know is that
you can use an NT Server or any NT machine as a router by
plugging more than one network adapter into it. It may not be an
extremely fast router though.

>Also, I will need to purchase 10/100Base-T PCI network cards...so far
>this is my short list of good(?) cards.
>* 3Com Etherlink XL 10/100 PCI ~170.00 CDN (auto 10/100)
>* AsanteFast 10/100 PCI ~180.00 CDN (auto 10/100 recognition?)
>* SMC Etherpower 10/100 PCI ~190.00 CDN
>* Kingston EtheRX 10/100 PCI ~110.00 CDN (cheap! but good?) 

I'm currently working with 3Com, trying to find out why the
3C905 works extremely slowly when alone in a computer with an
Intel motherboard with an 430 FX or 430 HX chip set.

You forgot the Intel EtherExpress PRO/100. I just received my
first batch of these, haven't tested them yet, but I hear they
are very good performers, and I believe I have a chance to find
them compatible with Intel motherboards <grin>. They're also
incredibly cheap after a very recent price cut. I paid less than
60 US$ per piece for a six-pack.

Hans-Georg