From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 11:20:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oak.drexeltech.com (oak.drexeltech.com [64.39.31.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D6637B422 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:20:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from elmo.johnturner.com (adsl-static-1-C7B2BC85.detroit.mi.ameritech.net [199.178.188.133]) by oak.drexeltech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA59627; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:31:10 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from john@johnturner.com) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000830141635.00b1ed40@mail.johnturner.com> X-Sender: jturner@mail.johnturner.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:20:16 -0400 To: BWS - Offwhite , pstapley From: John Turner Subject: Re: NIC cards Cc: "Conover, Justin" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <008901c012a0$bf65efd0$f5f055ce@rapidnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:56 AM 8/30/2000 -0500, BWS - Offwhite wrote: >If you are looking for a NIC card you can go with either 3Com or >NetGear. 3Com has generally been more expensive, but it seems to be the >tried and true brand. I personally despise 3Com cards. Never had one that wasn't flaky in some way. Recently the hardware guy here convinced me to use the NetGear cards for a >new server and it worked just as well as a 3Com card, but the price was >far less, like $20 from $70. Apparently all NetGear cards use the Tulip >chipset which is supported by FreeBSD with the "de" device. If you have >the source for FreeBSD on your machine, try this command. > >Any other hardware recommendations? If money is no object, I like Intel cards (they also work with BeOS nicely). The best price/performance ratio I've ever seen is with SMC. I get mine at the local retail store (CompUSA) for $14US and they come with a Cat5 patch cable (10/100 autosense, too). They work like a charm in all of my FreeBSD boxes, though I'm not online with any of them right now, so I can't recall the exact device they use. Netgear is also a great choice, for hubs and switches as well as NICs. - John Turner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message