Subject: Re: Ethernet Card preformace for firewall
To: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 04/18/1995 18:10:49
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HerB Peyerel <hpeyerl@beer.org> wrote:
>"Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>  wrote:
> > Actually, if I'm not mistaken, I think 3com makes both EISA and PCI
> > cards that work under current (3c579 and 3c589 or something like
> > that?).  Theo and Herb were working on this at one point, if I'm not
> > mistaken.

>I've never seen a PCI version of the card. I'm not disputing that it
>exists, I've just never laid my eyes on one.  The 3c579 is the EISA
>card, and the 3c589 is the PCMCIA card.

I have docs for a 3c595 on my desk right now; it's dual-mode 10/100
Mbit.  I think the 10Mbit-only card is a 3c590.  These are both
bus-mastering, but in other ways mostly compatible with a 3c5x9).
The significant differences seem to be bus-mastering, and 13-bit
wide counters instead of 11-bit wide.  The registers are otherwise
largely compatible with PIO adapters.

I beleive an EISA version of the 10/100Mbit card is in development.