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From: Patrick Gardella <patrick@freebsd.org>
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To: "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" <babolo@links.ru>
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Subject: Re: need a recommendation of NIC
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"Aleksandr A.Babaylov" wrote:
> 
> Pedro J. Lobo writes:
> [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> > On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Aleksandr A.Babaylov wrote:
> >
> > > Vladimir B. Grebenschikov writes:
> > > >
> > > > Intell EtherExpress
> > > > fxp driver in FreeBSD, I think it best low-cost ethernet card for
> > > > FreeBSD now.
> > > As far as I know EtherExpress has hardware bug.
> > > The easy way to trigger it is connect 2 EtherExpress by
> > > crossover cable and load by traffic.
> >
> > :-? I've been using Pro/100 cards for years, and I've always found them
> > rock stable. Can you explain us a bit more?
> My mail based on message from David Greenman <dg@root.com>:
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=45338+47352+/usr/local/www/db/text/1998/freebsd-hackers/19981025.freebsd-hackers

So don't use cross-over cables :)

Patrick


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