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- From: morris-kwok@cuhk.hk
- Subject: Re: Fastest ethernet cards?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.070458.5686@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk>
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- References: <1993Jan12.205307.26864@ldp.com> <726958035rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:04:58 GMT
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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.
-