From owner-freebsd-isp Wed May 7 09:38:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA00732 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 7 May 1997 09:38:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.calweb.com ([208.131.56.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA00724 for ; Wed, 7 May 1997 09:38:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.calweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA28385; Wed, 7 May 1997 09:38:12 -0700 (PDT) X-SMTP: hello web2.calweb.com from rdugaue@calweb.com server rdugaue@web2.calweb.com ip 208.131.56.52 Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 09:38:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Robert Du Gaue To: Josef Karthauser cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Most stable network card.. In-Reply-To: <19970507165839.38466@pavilion.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Wed, May 07, 1997 at 11:45:28AM -0400, Jamie Rishaw wrote: > > Has anyone agreed upon a really stable, fast (10Mb) ethernet card > > for FreeBSD? > > > > My 3com's have been kinda flaky.. but i've never had problems with SMC .. > > > > comments? > > > > -jamie > > We run SMC's as well. Not a dicky bird of a problem (that couldn't > be tied to elsewhere of course ;) We've used SMC products for quite some time as well. We do think there's a problem with heavy NFS activity with this card, but there's so many different variables that it's not 100% for sure. We recently tried a couple of new cards from a recommendation. These are the Intel PCI 10/100 cards. At $79 you can't beat the price, and I'm told these are the only cards that support Full Duplex at 100BT. So far we've been impressed, but we haven't swapped the card yet into a heavy production machine. Just another opinion.... > > Joe > -- > Josef Karthauser > Technical Manager Email: joe@pavilion.net > Pavilion Internet plc. [Tel: +44 1273 607072 Fax: +44 1273 607073] > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Du Gaue - rdugaue@calweb.com http://www.calweb.com President, CalWeb Internet Services Inc. (916) 641-9320 --------------------------------------------------------------------------