Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 11:38:16 EST From: "David Alderman" <dave@persprog.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: motherboard and Ethernet card recommendations Message-ID: <22AD11A2E@novell.persprog.com>
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Rodney Grimes recommended: > XX. ASI ASUS-PCI/I-P55TP4N Motherboard w/256K 8nS PBurst SRAM cache $ 210.00 > XX. TMG EFA18215 EFA PCI Ethernet Card, 10BaseT & BNC, DC21040 $ 85.00 Note: lots o' useful information omitted. This is a Triton board, isn't it? We have had a horrible time with an ASUS PCI/I-P55TP4XE and an SMC PCI network card that I think uses the DC21040 chipset. Unfortunately, for this apllication we are running (please, don't hit me!) SCO Open Server. A typical netstat -i shows: > netstat -i Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll net1 1500 192.2.2 meddml 11852554 120 12836553 275265 138074 lo0 8232 loopback localhost 149531 0 149531 0 0 A machine on the same subnet with the ASUS Neptune board and an EISA network card has no such problem with Ierrs Oerrs or Collisions. I know this doesn't have much bearing on FreeBSD but I would appreciate any advice you could give. Would the TP4N work better? Would the TMG card be a better choice than SMC? If I could use FreeBSD on this machine I would (and I bet it would solve our problems ;) ). Thanks. ====================================== When philosophy conflicts with reality, choose reality. Dave Alderman -- dave@persprog.com ======================================
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