From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jul 24 23:26:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA17007 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 23:26:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA16999 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 23:26:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0wrdiQ-0003zq-00; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 23:19:02 -0700 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 23:19:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: "John T. Farmer" cc: hardware@freebsd.org, jfarmer@goldsword.com Subject: Re: SMC Etherpower II issues In-Reply-To: <199707250538.BAA19496@sabre.goldsword.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, John T. Farmer wrote: > If SMC isn't the preferred FreeBSD PCI ethernet card now, what's a good > choice for servers? The Intel Etherexpress Pro/100B, and boy are they cheap these days, and price just keep coming down. My cost has dropped $18 in the last three weeks, and seem to be going lower. Also, the Pro/100B is the only card that support full-duplex ethernet under FreeBSD right now. SMC used to make really good cards, but lately they have been changing chipsets far too often for my taste. > John (Who needs to order some cards...) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > John T. Farmer Proprietor, GoldSword Systems > jfarmer@goldsword.com Public Internet Access in East Tennessee > dial-in (423)470-9953 for info, e-mail to info@goldsword.com > Network Design, Internet Services & Servers, Consulting > > Tom