From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Sep 6 13:53:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA00429 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 13:53:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gallup.cia-g.com (root@gallup.cia-g.com [206.206.162.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA00424 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 13:53:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gallup.cia-g.com (lithium@gallup.cia-g.com [206.206.162.10]) by gallup.cia-g.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA17621; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 14:53:29 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 14:53:29 -0600 (MDT) From: Stephen Fisher To: "S(pork)" cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3Com cards/quotas In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm running a 2.1R server with a 3c509, it works fine. On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, S(pork) wrote: > I recently installed FreeBSD 2.1 and I was really impressed with how easy > it was. I just have a few questions dealing with the online > documentation; specifically two issues... > > We almost exclusively run Linux here, and the 3Com cards work great. We > like to stick with one vendor/model as much as possible so spares are easy > to keep around. In the online handbook, I see the 3C509 has a note next > to it that says (buggy). It seems to be OK, but this will be a production > machine. What I'm wondering is whether the handbook is referring to 2.1 > or 2.1.5 or both and if the driver is truly buggy what might be > recommended as far as another ethernet card.