Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 13:22:11 -0600 From: Jim King <king@sstar.com> To: Jon Rust <jpr@vcnet.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: good network card (xl0 packet dropping) Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20000224132002.00a70e98@mail.sstar.com> In-Reply-To: <v0421011ab4db30557c5f@[209.239.239.22]> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002180057220.371-100000@localhost> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002180057220.371-100000@localhost>
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At 11:05 AM 2/24/2000 -0800, Jon Rust wrote: >At 1:03 AM -0500 2/18/00, Will Saxon wrote: >>What was the problem? I had a problem once doing the same thing with mine, >>but it was user error - the other side was 100mbit full duplex and I had >>forgotten to enable full-duplex. REALLY slow :P. > >This is why I won't use 10/100 Intel cards. I've had numerous problems >with them and my cisco cat 2924. They really don't seem to like talking to >another auto-negotiating device. I end up having to manually set one side >(or both) to get it to work. An unnecessary pain in the arse if you ask >me. It's been a while since I tried, so maybe it was a driver issue and >was fixed. For my money, the Kingston kne100tx's work fine, and the >lne100tx's from Linksys do as well. No superlatives, they just work. YMMV. In my office we had a Catalyst (5000?) that wouldn't auto-negotiate with TI Thunderlan NICs, but does fine with Intel and 3Com. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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