Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 03:48:48 -0600 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> To: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: good network card (xl0 packet dropping) Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20000219034848.009e4b50@207.227.119.2> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002181421510.5297-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc. ca> References: <3.0.3.32.20000218125024.009efd00@207.227.119.2>
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At 02:23 PM 2/18/00 -0500, Matt Heckaman wrote: >On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: >[...] >: What switch? And why set the media? "Bonkers" is a bit vague. >: >: The Intel autosenses speed/duplex well with Intel, 3Com, and Cisco switches >: from my dealings with and does so with FBSD or Win 9x/NT. Can't say the >: same about 3Com 9xx (old and new). YMMV > >I'm using 3c905b-tx cards with a Cisco 1548M switch, they all autosense >quite well at full-duplex 100Mbps, the one 3c509 in there also has no >problem autosensing on that particular switch. FYI =) Ah yes, but what about a mixed environment. Not sure about the newer cards, but 3Com's didn't autosense very well with 9x/NT, but then it's been a while since was responsible for either M$ version. MCSE holders have their uses. <g> Last 3Com I dealt with personally was the 3c959, which was decent, but horrible and needed to be locked in. Gave it away along with many other 3Coms. Heard of too many problems with the 905 varients and was more than happy with Intel. Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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