From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 29 13:31:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt014n8c.san.rr.com (dt011n66.san.rr.com [204.210.13.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87ADD14F79 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:31:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt014n8c.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA33136; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:31:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:31:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt014n8c.san.rr.com To: Mik Thwaite Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing two NICs In-Reply-To: <001901bf0af1$c3a304a0$4a741cac@SUNDERLAND> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please teach your mail client to wrap lines at about 75 columns. Thanks. On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Mik Thwaite wrote: > I have an two old 486 based machines, two ethernet cards and am trying to build a router/gateway. > > Both the NICs are 3Com 3C509 Etherlink III cards. I wouldn't use these for serious work in any unix system, although they tend to be good cards for windows. The preferred card for freebsd is the Intel Etherexpress Pro 100/+. Good luck, Doug -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message