From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 18 14:48:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB9CC37B5F7 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 14:48:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA04596; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:48:14 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000418154439.03cf1ca0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:48:03 -0600 To: "Dale E. Chulhan" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Best NIC / Best CDR-CDRW In-Reply-To: <38FCAC4B.1B007400@uwi.tt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:41 PM 4/18/2000 , Dale E. Chulhan wrote: >Hello I'm opening my self for suggestions on recommendations for the following >for use on my bsd machine: > >1) a cdr/cdrw >2) a NIC > >Can you also indicate the lowest release that supports your recommendation if >possible. > >The following is a brief exchange between me and a counter part, what is your >suggestion? > >He said: >======== >forget the expenive rubbish 3Com makes- they don't work well under windows and >barely works under linux... > >your best bet is the the generic NE2000 cards, you kno the cheap ones for >$125.00 (TT) you get the full 10MB per second out of them- also you can get a >cheap 8 port hub for about $400.00 (TT) > >I countered: >============ >1) Get Intel / 3Com if money's no objective "They're just as bad as cisco >routers" Actually, the Intel EtherExpress Pro series is quite good and not expensive. >2) Get either Realtek or DEC Tulip The DEC Tulip is discontinued. As for Realtek: their NE2000 clone is passable (I have one and it works OK) but avoid the ones with their own architecture (the 8139 and kin). It has the classic mbuf boundary problem, so that even though it does bus mastering it requires memory-to-memory copies within the driver. As for CD-Rs: Yamaha is the best performer. Plextor is a bit less expensive and is more rugged. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message