[138] in resnet
YES YES YES!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ping Huang)
Thu Jan 20 22:58:00 1994
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 22:57:27 -0500
From: pshuang@MIT.EDU (Ping Huang)
To: nocturne@MIT.EDU
Cc: resnet@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: nocturne@MIT.EDU's message of Fri, 14 Jan 94 04:56:15 EST <9401140956.AA20034@oliver.MIT.EDU>
> I, for one, will be interested in optimal performance within the ET
> subnet as well as with the world outside the walls of our little
> yellow house in Brookline.
Despite all the pretty looking advertising and propaganda material you
may read in manufacturer's materials, there is ultimately very little
difference in throughput between different Ethernet cards for use on
"client" machines. Now, if ET was thinking about setting up a Novell
Pentium heavy-duty fileserver for 250 users, I would say yes, by all
means read the various reviews that discuss how different Ethernet
boards perform under extremely heavy loads, but otherwise software
compatibility and quality of the board in working well in environments
with cards from many vendors is much more important.
---
Yours in Leadership, Friendship, and Service,
Ping Huang (INTERNET: pshuang@mit.edu), probably speaking for himself
