From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 14 13:38: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74C8737B400 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:38:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21B4243E3B for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:38:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fozekizer@attbi.com) Received: from hume ([12.239.154.32]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020814203806.TTER19356.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@hume> for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 20:38:06 +0000 Message-ID: <003401c243d2$306da380$32040101@hume> From: "Charles Pelletier" Cc: References: <20020814140358.W79676-100000@ren.sasknow.com> Subject: Re: Questions about Nics and Freebsd Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 15:35:54 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 I have to agree. The ONLY card I've had absolutely no problems with is the FA310TX, which is getting increasingly hard to find since they've replaced that card more than a few times. I have had some luck with the LinkSys cards, but they just don't last as long as the NG cards do. > The Netgear FA310TX cards are really solid. With 18 or 20 of these in > production and under moderate load for approximately 3 years, I had my > first one cease to function last week, but that was only after moving > it to a different machine, so I'd bet it was a combination of ESD, and > a 3 year old card that pushed a million packets per day or so. > > I changed suppliers, and the new supplier didn't carry them, so I > switched to Intel 10/100S cards (PILA8460), which add about 25% to the > price, but work extremely well, are easy to source, and always seem to > be in stock. I also have a few of their dual port NICs, and have been > satisfied with those as well. > > I have the odd 3Com card scattered among a few workstations with no > complaints, but tend to stay away from them because of their cost for > a basic 10/100 card. I did get several defective 3C905 cards from the > same mfg lot two or three years ago, which got a lot of attention when > I sent them back, because (quote from RMA tech) "but they're 3Com!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message