From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 10 12:25:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-76-236.knology.net [24.214.76.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E13337B422 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:25:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f3AJOlq08292; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:24:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:24:47 -0500 From: David Kelly To: Chris Dillon Cc: Larry Librettez , Gunther Schadow , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who's got the cheapest 100-BT Ethernet NIC? Message-ID: <20010410142447.B8255@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <200104100109.f3A19XP30889@grumpy.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:27:25PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:27:25PM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote: > On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, David Kelly wrote: > > > Couple of months ago found a vendor with a box of pulled Intel > > 10/100's and talked them down to 3 for $24. All 3 worked, as did > > the other 6 purchased by those looking over my shoulder. > > Even if they didn't work, Intel supposedly has lifetime warranties on > their cards (white-box or retail, so long as they're Intel brand > cards). > > I haven't had to test that warranty yet, so I don't know how easy it > is to take them up on it. We currently have over 500 Intel NICs from > some old 82557 boards bought about six years ago all the way up past > the 82559 to the new whatchamacallit with the 3DES encryption in it, > and we've _never_ had one go bad. Come to think of it, I knew Intel had that nice warranty. Have one that was hit by lightning that I should look into collecting. Most of the boards this vendor had were the '557 but a couple of '558's. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message