From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 24 23:21:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linif.org (www.linif.org [204.228.204.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 957E837B422 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:21:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dotslash@linif.org) Received: (qmail 10317 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2001 06:21:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cpu563) (195.229.53.61) by www.linif.org with SMTP; 25 Apr 2001 06:21:32 -0000 Message-ID: <00c001c0cd4f$d75c3a30$2903010a@atg.altayer.com> From: "dotslash" To: "Matthew Emmerton" , "Matt Barton" , "Chris Phillips" Cc: References: <004301c0cd42$fa6bfa90$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Subject: Re: FreeBSD w 3C905 cannot connect to Cisco 3524XL switch Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:10:52 +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 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 }. > i'm wondering what's the reason why. i've used 3com nics for the past 10 years and my experience with them are reliable. for my *nix boxes here i've been using the vortex nics and they work fine. i think the real problem here (in this thread) is your cisco router. the default config of the ports for cisco are the cause of our problems so we have to reconfigure them (don't have the details right now). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message