Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!sun-barr!newstop!eastapps!bodleian!geoff From: geoff@bodleian.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: Best 3COM card? Message-ID: <6721@eastapps.East.Sun.COM> Date: 13 Jun 91 14:45:06 GMT References: Sender: news@East.Sun.COM Reply-To: geoff@east.sun.com (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) Organization: Sun Microsystems PC-NFS Engineering Lines: 23 Quoth pritchet@susie.cs.scarolina.edu (Ron Pritchett) (in ): # #We currently have a 3C505 card on loan. It eventually has to be given back, #so we are just going to buy a need card with some recent budgeting decisions. #We run PC-NFS 3.5a and was wondering what is the *best* card to use with it. # #Geoff, are you reading this? |-) Of course I am!!! Obligatory disclaimer: Sun resells 3Com cards. That said, there's really not a lot of difference between the various cards out there, so go for price. I personally cycle between a UB PCNIU (using NDIS), a non-name NE1000 clone (using packet driver) and a Xircom (when I'm out of slots). But then I've never been a pure speed freak (except driving Rt.128 :-) Geoff --Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect(geoff@East.Sun.COM or geoff.arnold@Sun.COM)-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Sun Technology Enterprises : PC Networking group -- -- (officially from July 1, but effectively in place right now) --