From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 8 23:17:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D57637B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 23:17:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA17298; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 23:10:15 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200101090710.XAA17298@implode.root.com> To: Matt Dillon Cc: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" , Stefan Molnar , "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel PRO/100+ driver or hardware? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 Jan 2001 16:24:05 PST." <200101090024.f090O5K31687@earth.backplane.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 23:10:15 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've had incredibly good luck with the netgear FS516 (16 port unmanaged > switch), more then I probably deserve. I haven't had a single problem > using them to distribute our office LAN. However, I get mixed results > with the smaller netgear switches (e.g. 5 and 8-port babies), and would > not recommend them. Yeah, we've been using both the 8 and 16 port Netgear switches in the TeraSolutions offices for about a year and haven't had any problems with them. They autonegotiate correctly with the Intel NICs and have been very reliable. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message