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Dual channel SMC cards ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (root)
Mon Sep 16 07:53:35 1996
From: root <root@berg.coso.com>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 11:14:22 +0200 (MET DST)
I'm a little tight on PCI slots on my printserver (before someone asks, this
is a printserver for E size (A0) plotters. The idea is to read/write close to
10 Mbps ) So I'd like to use the SMC EtherPower^2 dual channel combo network
cards; Before I order a bunch of these, does anyone know if these work just
like 2 seperate cards in linux ? If anyone has suggestions as to what kind
of system I need to read at wirespeed from 2 segments, and write to atleast
2 other segments at the same speed I'd love to hear about it in private Email)
(Setup: workstation -> NIC -> | |-> NIC -> printer
workstation -> NIC -> + PCI bus linux box +-> NIC -> printer
workstation -> NIC -> | |-> NIC -> printer
Ultra Fast SCSI -> Buslogic 958 -> |
)
Thanks
Cees
