From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 30 15:51:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA15278 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 15:51:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA15249; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 15:51:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA23619; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 00:51:05 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA26726; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 00:51:05 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id WAA12158; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 22:42:40 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607302042.WAA12158@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Best Ethernet Card / Best Drivers for ? To: mango@communique.net (Raul Zighelboim) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 22:42:40 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Raul Zighelboim at "Jul 30, 96 01:57:37 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Raul Zighelboim wrote: > > We are building a server for the office. > We want to make this server as solid as possible. > > So, the question is: > > What is the best supported Ethernet Card for FreeBSD 2.1.5 ? Mainly depends on the bus system. For ISA buses, the WD/SMC cards (SMC 8013) are fine. For PCI, get something with the DEC 21040 chip. They are built by many vendors. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)