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From: hellier@skat.usc.edu (Chuck Hellier)
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Subject: Re: Please boycott Xircom
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Date: 3 Oct 90 22:36:19 GMT
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In article <12920048@acf4.NYU.EDU> chapman@acf4.NYU.EDU (Gary W. Chapman) writes:

>D-Link Systems Inc.
>5 Musick
>Irvine CA 92718
>714-455-1688     according to the 1990-91 LAN Times Buyers Guide
>
>Also with offices in Canada and the U.K.
>Is there a packet driver for their products?
>
>-- Gary Chapman, New York University

Yes, I'm using it now.

I'm using a 286 with a parallel port, a thin ethernet connection, and
a DE-600 Pocket LAN Adapter.  Put them all together with your favorite
packet driver-supporting TCP connectivity package (e.g. CUTCP, NCSA,
PC/TCP) and you have a TCP Client.  Using an IPX packet driver
interface (e.g. BYU's) and NETx, you have simultaneous TCP and IPX
connections.

The performance is not bad...  Novell's PERFORM2 revealed:
			Block size (1000 blocks xmitted)
Ethernet Hardware	512	1024	1536	2048
DE-600			50.56	66.18	62.0	68.19
NE2000			93.81	127.23	129.98	143.88
  (for comparison)

The packet driver shipped with the DE-600 adapter is:
	DE600PD.COM	6645 bytes	8-9-90	8:46pm


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