From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 17 7:39:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout1.nyroc.rr.com (mailout1-0.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A9C537B401 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 07:39:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from justin@shiningsilence.com) Received: from roc-24-169-96-227.rochester.rr.com (roc-24-169-96-227.rochester.rr.com [24.169.96.227]) by mailout1.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.2/RoadRunner 1.03) with SMTP id f6HEcR120019; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:38:28 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Justin C Sherrill To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommend a NIC Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:45:26 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20010717111807.19659.qmail@web20008.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010717111807.19659.qmail@web20008.mail.yahoo.com> Cc: Gavin Kenny MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01071710452601.00402@roc-24-169-96-227.rochester.rr.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 17 July 2001 07:18, you wrote: > My boss has said I can buy some new NIC's. So what > does everyone suggest? Other than the occasional glitch, there's very little difference between Ethernet cards by manufacturer. Find a cheap one (or 10, in your case), make sure it's supported, and you will probably be OK. The difference between, say, a 3Com card and a generic card with a RealTek chipset is only the price. My workplace (cable ISP) installs/supplies several hundred Ethernet cards each week to new customers, and the average results have borne this out. Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message