Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!VAX.FTP.COM!jbvb From: jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Toshiba net-tool, perhaps? Message-ID: <8908161650.AA05619@vax.ftp.com> Date: 16 Aug 89 16:50:17 GMT References:Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 7 As Geoff Arnold said, don't buy a 3C501 if you have any alternative. It is by a large margin the worst Ethernet interface available today. Particularly when run in promiscuous mode, it will lose *lots* of packets, because it has only one receiver buffer, and that has to be emptied before another packet can be accepted. jbvb