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Re: Ethernet card



On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Ariel Biener wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On 11-Mar-98 Shachar Tal wrote:
> > 
> > >  don't try the new 905s.
> > 
> > Why? I have a bunch of them, including two on a firewall with quite heavy 
> > traffic with an average uptime about 2 months, with no problems.
> 
> What is heavy traffic to you Evgeny ?

These cards croak under heavy traffic (i.e. 10Mb/s 24 hours a day). I've
tried them but had serious problems. Plus, they actually don't give you
10Mb/s. The 595 gave me 10-15% more throughput.

Shachar Tal
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