From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 12:35:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C320E37B423 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:35:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e7UJZkO59179; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:35:46 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:35:46 -0500 (CDT) From: Alex Charalabidis To: John Turner Cc: "Conover, Justin" , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: NIC cards In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20000830141635.00b1ed40@mail.johnturner.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, John Turner wrote: > 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 [snip] > 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. This subject is as likely to generate a religious debate as it is to provide the original poster with useful information. Intel for everything that can't afford NIC-related downtime. There's my $.02 (plus $39, since I put my money where my foo^H^H^Hmouth is). -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 System Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message