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Date:      Thu, 02 Mar 2000 17:39:24 -0800
From:      Shawn Ramsey <shawn@megadeth.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Ethernet card recommendation
Message-ID:  <4.2.0.58.20000302173917.024a15c0@mail.cpl.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000302180403.E14279@fw.wintelcom.net>
References:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.1000302175038.26775A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> <Pine.GSO.3.96.1000302175038.26775A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>

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At 06:04 PM 3/2/00 -0800, you wrote:
* 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.


Yes, they do. The Tulip cards DO have underrun problems... I don't think we 
will use them anymore. They are good for a really cheap card though. The 
Kingston 110KNETX is what we have been using.... We've never had a problem 
with Intel PRO/100 or any of the /100 PCI cards.




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