From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 12 11: 7:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [12.9.219.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40F9C14C1E for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:07:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Received: from HARLIE.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [12.9.219.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA24397; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:07:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:07:31 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: "Forrest W. Christian" Cc: Mike Pontillo , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NICs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Forrest W. Christian wrote: > That said, the Intel EtherExpress family seem to work EXTREMELY well and > extremely good. I put them in all my customer's "high-end" freebsd boxes > and in my customer's high-end servers. Should have been more explicit, this was for a firewall/VPN box. Stability of the Win9X boxes is not as much an issue, and the vendors tend to test better for that environment anyway. Then again, my home network is switched 100BaseT, with all EtherExpressPro cards. I thought it was worth the $46 each for the cards. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message