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>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Underwood <steveu@netpage.com.hk> writes:

Steve> Of course feeding 4 x 100MB cards into one hub would be dumb. I
Steve> think the MS test had 4 x 100MB cards feeding four independent
Steve> groups of workstations, which I think is pretty real world - at
Steve> least its compatible with my world.

Guess we live in different places then.

Steve> Here in Hong Kong I have only seen one source of GB cards, at
Steve> horrendous prices, and hubs at far worse prices. Maybe things
Steve> are different in the US. I can get 24 port 100MB hubs for about
Steve> US$250, and Tulip clones for under US$20. In most servers, and
Steve> server style motherboards, one or two SCSI buses are included
Steve> on the motherboard. With most boards now having at least 6 PCI
Steve> slots, 4 cheap Tulip cards in 4 of those slots sounds OK.

Again, be careful mixing hubs and switches, you can get many switches
with a bunch of 10/100 ports and one Gigabit port for resonable prices
these days.

6 PCI slots is pretty much the limit on most motherboards, if you want
more than that it tends to get _really_ expensive.

Steve> Anyway, if GB Ethernet is exploding in the U.S. maybe my
Steve> comment was inappropriate.

I think it is, however I happen to be in Switzerland and we get decent
prices on those cards as well.

Anyway this is becoming off-topic for linux-kernel.

Jes

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