From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Oct 24 14:04:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA20021 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:04:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from happy.digitaldune.net (craig@happy.digitaldune.net [208.19.80.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA20014 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:04:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from craig@happy.digitaldune.net) Received: from localhost (craig@localhost) by happy.digitaldune.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA19874; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:08:20 -0700 Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:08:20 -0700 (MST) From: Craig Sawyer To: "Jaysen O'Dell" cc: Nicolas Jungers , "N. Del More" , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, linuxisp@friendly.jeffnet.org Subject: Re: Help: Router Advise Needed In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I run 3com 3c905-TX 10/100 cards. they cost about $100.00 and are really fast. I have used as many as 2 in a machine at any one time, I have yet to try more than 2, so I can't tell you about more. The ISA based 3c509 cards work really well, and have had up to 2 in a machine. they are directly supported in the 2.0.X and abover kernels, and you can find drivers for the 1.2.X kernels. They run great at both 10mbs and 100mbs a second, and are used in the Beowulf project(supercomputer with pentiums) -Craig On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Jaysen O'Dell wrote: > Ok I see all you guys with "fancy" NICs. Outside of the obvious PCI vs > ISA, 10 vs 100, what is the differance? This is a question based on > ignorance so please be gentle. I have been using ne2000 and clones and > never had any problems that could be associated with the NIC. Granted I am > not nearly as big as most of you, but if this is just a disaster waiting > to happen.... Ships with holes don't float. > > Jaysen > =============================================================================== Craig Sawyer The Yuma Area LUG:lug@happy.digitaldune.net craig@happy.digitaldune.net Debian/GNU Linux the Beautiftical OS.... http://www.debian.org ===============================================================================