John Maier <JohnAM@datastorm.com> writes:
> I am faced with deciding to use...
> 
> a) 3COM 3c509
> b) Novell NE2000
> c) SMC/WD 8013
> 
> Which would probably give me the best performance?

I believe the SMC/WD 8013 is the highest-end card.  I have one, the
SMC Elite16 Ultra, which gave me 360k/sec FTP rates over the local
Brown network (multiple hops) with my 486-dx2/66 vlb 16mb running
NetBSD-current.

I can't honestly say how good that is, since it's the only card I've
tried.  Unfortunately I never did any real benchmarks, and now I no
longer have ethernet access.

	Mark
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