"David Laight" <David.Laight@btinternet.com>
>I never saw an ethernet card for a 486 that got anywhere near LAN
>saturation even with big packets - the best was the AMD PCnet-ISA!
>Even many 32bit EISA cards wouldn't do it....

ISTR it couldn't quite achieve this if traffic consisted only of minimum
size packets ... otherwise PCROUTE/PCBRIDGE could achieve close to 10M
saturation on an 8086. Certainly with a 286

Danny Thomas