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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Ethernet card recommendation
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* Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> [000302 17:53] wrote:
> 
> We are going to buy some NICs for our PCs running FreeBSD.  I read on the
> mailing list that Tulip cards have FIFO underflow problem. How about the 
> Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 and SMC EtherPower II 9432 cards? Do they have
> any known problems?  Are they fully supported under FreeBSD 3.x and 4.0?
> Or maybe I should consider other brands of NICs.
> 
> Any suggestion is appreciated.

I don't think I've ever had a problem with the Intel cards, they
really rock.

-Alfred


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