Re: PCI ethernet cards

Chris Evans (chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Thu, 20 Mar 1997 16:25:55 +0000 (GMT)


On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Scott Laird wrote:

> PCI cards, and they work well with Linux. Plus, I've seen FTP between
> a pair of these cards at over 1120k/sec before. Fast enough?

...

> The NE2000 should be dead and buried. Let it die in peace.

Is there such a thing as a "good" NE2000 clone? For 17ukp, I have one of
these. So does my friend in a nearby room. We're disappointed if we
_don't_ get 1.1Mb/s transfer rate between our pair of Linux boxes.
Obviously, feel free to half the figure for M$ based operating systems..

Chris.