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From: jbvb@FTP.COM (James B. Van Bokkelen)
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Subject: Re: TCP/IP/Ethernet Protocol Analyser - which to buy
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Date: 17 Aug 90 15:52:18 GMT
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    From: hub.ucsb.edu!spectrum.CMC.COM!lars@ucsd.edu  (Lars Poulsen)

    This means that standard commercial ethernet PC cards are not the right
    thing to use. The special-engineered ethernet card is most of the
    premium cost.

Lars, at least as of last winter Sniffers used a 3Com 3C505 interface
that may have been modified, but not much; a customer reported being
able to load and run both WIN/PC and PC/TCP for the 3C505 on it just
fine.  A LANAlyzer does use a special interface, but both cards are
based on 82586 chips.

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