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From: coppi@groucho.caltech.edu (Paul Coppi)
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Subject: Fast ethernet card for PC
Summary: questions...
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Date: 18 Jul 89 22:35:53 GMT
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Reply-To: coppi@groucho.caltech.edu (Paul Coppi)
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Hello.

We are trying to hook a PC into a rather loaded ethernet
network (lots of diskless clients/NFS, etc.)
and need some advice. We have heard that cards like the WD8003 can only
handle data rates up to about 2.5 Mbs instead of the full 10Mbs supported
by the ethernet bus. Is this correct? (Would lots of packets be dropped
on a loaded network?)
Could someone let us know if
cards exist which can handle high data rates? A brief description
of any such cards (price,8 vs. 16 bit bus, buffer size etc.) would
be extremely helpful, as would comments from people who have tried using
them.   We will summarize and post any replies received.

Thanks in advance,
Paolo Coppi  (coppi@groucho.caltech.edu)

(Theoretical astrophysicists+hardware = disaster -- help!)