From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 24 21:50:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from skippyii.compar.com (mail.compar.com [216.208.38.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B019337B43E for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 21:50:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from hermes (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by skippyii.compar.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f3P4tR025380; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 00:55:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <004301c0cd42$fa6bfa90$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Matt Barton" , "Chris Phillips" Cc: References: Subject: Re: FreeBSD w 3C905 cannot connect to Cisco 3524XL switch Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 00:48:30 -0400 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 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On 4/24/01 10:28 PM, "Chris Phillips" wrote: > > > I would have to agree with Matthew. I have about 80 boxes sitting behind a > > 3524XL-EN all using Intel cards and have never had a problem. I avoid most > > other cards, but 3COM cards I avoid like the plague. > > What are your reasons for avoiding 3Com cards? I'm just curious to know. > > In my past experience, 3Com cards seem to be very common, in both servers > and workstations. Yes, but common != { reliable, co-operative }. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message