From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 5 6:50: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from solaris.matti.ee (solaris.matti.ee [194.126.98.135]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1093E459D for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 06:50:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from myhakas.matti.ee (myhakas.matti.ee [194.126.114.87]) by solaris.matti.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA0702CE6A; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 16:50:25 +0200 (EET) Received: by myhakas.matti.ee (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 50F22EA; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 16:50:29 +0200 (EET) Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 16:50:29 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste To: Scott Bolte Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is DFE-530 NIC identified as rl0 instead of vr0? Message-ID: <20000205165029.A3903@myhakas.matti.ee> Reply-To: vallo@matti.ee References: <200002041915.NAA02845@cirque.gso.med.ge.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <200002041915.NAA02845@cirque.gso.med.ge.com>; from Scott Bolte on Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 01:15:20PM -0600 Organization: =?iso-8859-1?Q?AS_Matti_B=FCrootehnika?= Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 01:15:20PM -0600, Scott Bolte wrote: > Thanks for the information Vallo. I had not even noticed the + > in TX+ until this morning and did not realize there were two > models. > > So are you happy with the 530TX? I don't mind if the transfer > rates aren't as fast as the other cards, but I'd like to > offload the CPU as much as possible. I'm quite happy with the cards I own, thought I use them only in the workstations. Don't know how they behave under continuous load. You seem to want something for the server, I personally use several Intel 82558/82559 based cards because I can get them here. But, as I want to support companies which release programming info and are overall Open Source friendly I suggest getting 3Com Fast Etherlink cards ( the 3c905 series). I'm sad, the distribution of 3Com cards suddenly stopped about two months ago in Estonia. -- Vallo Kallaste vallo@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message