From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri May 22 18:03:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA02971 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 22 May 1998 18:03:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA02877 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 18:02:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #3) id 0yd2DS-0005Zo-00; Fri, 22 May 1998 17:31:14 -0700 Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 17:31:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom To: Hugh LaMaster cc: FreeBSD Hardware Subject: Re: Seeking hardware recommendations In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 22 May 1998, Hugh LaMaster wrote: > > On Thu, 21 May 1998, Tom wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 May 1998, Josef Grosch wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 10:46:36PM -0400, Ben Goodwin wrote: > > > > > system. What I'm looking for are recommendations on: > > > > > PCI ethernet card Some 100-meg card that works well and efficiently > > > > > > Bay Networks Netgear FA310tx > > > > Ugh. Yet another DEC chipset. The Intel Etherexpress Pro100B is a bit > > faster, and uses less CPU (about 15% I believe). > > The DEC chipset cards are among the most widely supported/ > available, and, they are also a good choice for multicast, > and there are some nice, low-cost versions out there, too. The DEC chipsets are not that well supported. The media detection is problematic. There are many variances from model to model (at least a half a dozen different chipset versions). Ugh... Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message