On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 10:07:43PM -0000, David Laight wrote:
> 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....

I don't know what ethernet card you have, but a NetBSD 486dx2/66 with 2 ne2000
close ISA can route a ftp session at 10Mb/s (ftp reported more than
1MB/s for a large file transfers)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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