Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 17:10:04 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: khansen@njcc.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fast EtherLink XL NIC Message-ID: <199802280110.RAA29774@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Feb 1998 20:03:26 EST." <34F7625E.63D9@njcc.com>
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> Sorry, I guess I dozed off in the middle of the "Which NIC is Fastest" > debate, and I find myself now looking at the latest 3Com card that is > available for $45 from 3Com (at 1-888-906-3COM (ext. 128) - is this > a good, high-performance card for a 100MB/s network? I am curious with > its performance relative to, say, a NetGear FA-310TX at about the same > price ($35 +/-)? NO! At this point in time, DO NOT purchase or plan to purchase any 3Com PCI adapter for use with FreeBSD on 100Mb/s networks. Whilst some of the adapters may indeed posess high-performance features, FreeBSD does not support these features. Your performance will *SUCK*. > Thanks in advance (and sorry for stirring up the pot again!), Please consider consulting the FreeBSD mailing list archives at www.freebsd.org before asking questions like this. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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