From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 8 05:48:14 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA13941 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 8 Apr 1995 05:48:14 -0700 Received: from relay-europe.ps.net (relay-europe.ps.net [160.110.96.10]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA13935 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 1995 05:48:12 -0700 Received: by relay-europe.ps.net (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA09645; Sat, 8 Apr 1995 13:49:12 +0100 Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 13:49:12 +0100 (BST) From: Aled Morris Reply-To: Aled Morris Subject: Re: best performance hardware To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504062120.OAA05161@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thank you all for your replies - I guess the conclusion is PCI 21040 based cards are best! Now I need to find a supplier in Europe... :-( I've seen ads for SMC PCI Ethernet boards - are they all 21040 by definition? Resellers don't usually know, of course ("comes with ODI and NDIS drivers, what more do you want?") Typical advertisements are "SMC Etherpower PCI" for GBP130 (~US$200). Does that sound like the right one? This makes Rod's offer of Compex cards for $119 look very attractive. Aled -- aledm@relay-europe.ps.net | tel +44 973 207987 Perot Systems Europe Ltd. | fax +44 181 476 2419