From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 22 20:18:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA00339 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 20:18:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA00319 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 20:17:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA01092; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 20:17:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 20:17:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Jaime Bozza cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Driver Question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Jaime Bozza wrote: > > The 3c900 has very little onboard cache; if this machine is going to be > > busy, you may not want to use this. > > Ok, thanks for the response. Any recommendations then for PCI-based > cards? Is the 3C905 (10/100) card better at all? Or should I just stick > with my trusty 3C509's? The 900 is 10/100 as well, if I remember correctly. The 905 may be better. (It may have less cache because the PCI bus is probed faster than the ISA bus is...) > Or, perhaps, another manufacturer? Have you heard much about the Intel > PCI Ethernet cards? The Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B is supported quite well in FreeBSD; also any DE21x4x based cards (Kingston, SMC, Accton, Dayna, others) work very nicely. Is there a requirement for 100mbit? The EtherExpress is known to work at 100 megabit. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major