From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jun 14 9:37:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from guy.asimware.com (guy.asimware.com [199.185.255.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9FC237C2C5 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:37:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gscott@guy.asimware.com) Received: from localhost (gscott@localhost) by guy.asimware.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA17015; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 12:36:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 12:36:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Greg Scott To: Matija Matijevac Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4 x Network card 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 > Is it possible to plug in 4 x network card in one FreeBSD box and that all > that cards works. > I think to buy all same card (Realtek 8139). Avoid RealTek chipset cards. I recall a review I once saw on RealTek parts: "It was widely known that NE2000 type cards were the lowest form of quality for ethernet. We cannot believe it, but there is now a new winner for this category.. the winner is RealTek." I made the mistake of using a couple of RealTek cards in a some high use servers. Both had problems with just dying. They also had really high collision rates. Replaced the cards with a Dlink 530TX and an Intel 100+ card and that fixed all the problems. -- Greg Scott Asimware Innovations Inc. Website Co-Ordinator 600 Upper Wellington St Unit D Network Administrator Hamilton, Ontario, L9A3P9 Canada gscott@asimware.com http://www.asimware.com PGP Key http://www.asimware.com/pubkey_gscott.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message