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Re: cheap 4-port tulip-based cards available

To: Karen Shaeffer <shaeffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: cheap 4-port tulip-based cards available
From: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 17:27:59 -0400
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 02:14:17PM -0700, Karen Shaeffer wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 02:06:51PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> > > http://www.softwareandstuff.com/h_comp_inet4.html
> > > 
> > > The site says almost nothing about the cards, but on a tip from a
> > > coworker I bought one the last time this site had them for sale, and
> > > have been extremely happy with it. lspci shows:
> > 
> > I just got mine, and ordered a bunch more...
> > 
> > These are the Phobos p430 NICs.  I have extensively benchmarked 2
> > of those NICs that I got as eval copies, and they perform as good
> > as or better than the 570tx, using the standard tulip driver.
> 
> I'm just curious. What do you do with a bunch of those cards? Do you put
> them in a PC and make a switch out of it?

Or a firewall...  Or a router...

> cheers,
> Karen
> -- 
>  Karen Shaeffer
>  Neuralscape; Santa Cruz, Ca. 95060
>  shaeffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  http://www.neuralscape.com
> 

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