From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jan 24 11:12:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA13589 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jan 1997 11:12:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [204.160.242.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA13568 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 1997 11:12:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from harlie (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA06127; Fri, 24 Jan 1997 11:12:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 11:12:30 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" X-Sender: ejs@harlie To: Victor Rotanov cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cheap and good network cards In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970124205002.00691b18@fasts.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Victor Rotanov wrote: > Hi. > > Dont know if this question belongs here, but anyway... > > What cheap and good 10mbit network cards exist that will work both under > freebsd and win95? > > Things like surecom do not work on all systems and 3com is too expensive... My favorite 10mbit ISA card are the SMC's. CompUSA has the EtherEZ for $100, so you should be able to find it for less. If that doesn't count as cheap, then look for a decent NE2000 clone. It will eat more CPU time, and i get better transfer rates out of the SMCs (though not by much). We use $35 clones from just about any source. The biggest difference I've found is that while almost all are software-setup only now, some will only let you set up the first card it finds. Others will list all cards and let you choose which one to use.