From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 17 20:32:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout2-0.nyroc.rr.com (mailout2-0.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EED137B403 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 20:32:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from justin@shiningsilence.com) Received: from roc-24-169-96-227.rochester.rr.com (roc-24-169-96-227.rochester.rr.com [24.169.96.227]) by mailout2-0.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.2/RoadRunner 1.03) with SMTP id f6I3VDW14542; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 23:31:14 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Justin C Sherrill To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommend a NIC Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 23:38:08 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <001001c10eec$9be918e0$0e00000a@tomcat> In-Reply-To: <001001c10eec$9be918e0$0e00000a@tomcat> Cc: "Andrew C. Hornback" , MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01071723380800.01143@roc-24-169-96-227.rochester.rr.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 17 July 2001 14:16, you wrote: > You DIDN'T just say that... DID you?!? > > *falls over laughing* > > The difference between a 3Com and a RealTek is only the price? *shakes > his head and makes a note not to get a cable modem...* NICs come into our warehouse in sheets; 3Com cards cost us 3 times as much and invariably had some duds on every allotment. RealTek didn't when we ordered from them. I was using RealTek vs. 3Com because I've seen people attach value judgements to those brand names when overall, the brand name only made a difference in price. If you're going to make a recommendation, it'd be nice to have some evidence other than anecdotal. My personal best experience with network cards in FreeBSD came from Intel EtherExpress chipsets in two different machines. That's not a lot to judge from, of course. I've also had good luck with 3Com 9xx series cards, which use a different driver (xl instead of ep) from the troublesome ones Gavin mentioned. I unfortunately haven't experienced and don't know of a fix for the ep flakiness... That might be a question for the freebsd-hardware list. Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message