From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 27 17:12:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA11785 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 17:12:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA11676 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 17:11:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA29774; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 17:10:06 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802280110.RAA29774@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: khansen@njcc.com cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fast EtherLink XL NIC In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 27 Feb 1998 20:03:26 EST." <34F7625E.63D9@njcc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 17:10:04 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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