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Date:      Mon, 4 May 2009 16:31:16 -0400
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        "Jean-Paul Natola" <jnatola@familycareintl.org>
Cc:        Jos Chrispijn <jos@webrz.net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: NIC
Message-ID:  <18943.20628.234092.793988@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9015E435D@www.fcimail.org>
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Jean-Paul Natola writes:

>  I don't think dell has their own brand of NIC's in my experience
>  intel has always great quality and support (drivers) for their
>  nic cards

	Conversely, cards based on RealTek chips have a reputation of
being both inexpensive /and/ cheap.  (This may or may not be true of
the wireless cards.)
	The drivers for the Intel cards are written by Intel; I've got
a dual-port Pro/1000 GT, and the thing is a _rock_.



				Robert Huff



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