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Subject: novell ne2000 cards with FreeBSD...opinions?
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 18:04:33 -0700
From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
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I'm a western digital biggot, and have historically stayed away from
NE2000 cards, but I have a need to put together about 10 systems for
some emergency radio work I'm doing and I wanted to get some newer
opinions on the cards and the driver state, given the price difference
between the two designs.

Is the ed/NE2000 flavor of the driver reliable now?  Overruns?

What kind of performance can I expect to see on a NE2000 vs a 16 bit SMC card
when running FreeBSD?

e.g. would you dare build a diskless NFS client with a NE2000 clone?

Thanks,
Paul