[rescue] Have I erred? (SGI division)

[Dave McGuire]

On July 15, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> > .... I'll probably slap a 100BaseT NIC in the open slot, once I figure
> > out which ones are suitable, and how you deal with EISA in an INRX
> > environment.
> Plug in the 3com 3c597, install the drivers, reboot, done. See:
> http://www.futuretech.vuurwerk.nl/fastether.html
> Don't expect much from the 3c597. I got a bit less then 3 MB/s on my 150

  Heh...it *is* ethernet, after all. ;)

> MHz R4400 machine. The GIO64 FDDI card blasts around 6.5 MB/s with NFS
> and 10 MB/s when doing raw TCP transfers through the fiber. The person I
> swaped the 3c597 for the FDDI card still beleaves he made a good deal. 

  HA!  I love it.  I get a solid 10MBps raw TCP throuh mine as well.
I'm consistently impressed with SGI's FDDI performance.

     -Dave

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