Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:20:16 -0400 From: John Turner <john@drexeltech.com> To: BWS - Offwhite <brennan@offwhite.net>, pstapley <pstapley@rapidnet.com> Cc: "Conover, Justin" <JConov01@sprintspectrum.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIC cards Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.0.20000830141635.00b1ed40@mail.johnturner.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008301152260.44358-100000@home.offwhite.net > References: <008901c012a0$bf65efd0$f5f055ce@rapidnet.com>
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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
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