From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Oct 24 19:34:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA06675 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 19:34:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from satie.hk.homegate.net (satie.hk.homegate.net [202.66.88.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA06636 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 19:34:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmf@homegate.net) Received: (qmail 25431 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Oct 1997 02:33:48 -0000 Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 10:33:48 +0800 (HKT) From: Bo Fussing X-Sender: bmf@satie.hk.homegate.net To: Craig Sawyer cc: "Jaysen O'Dell" , 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 > 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 We have a Linux box with 3 3C509s, whilst I cannot claim that they are faster than other cards, they seem to be very stable and I have never had to replace one on this or any other of our servers/PCs. My primary reason for going for these is the stability of the driver and the lack of problems I have seen on this and other mailing lists. In my book stability/reliability beats speed any day. Bo ----------------------------------------------------------------- Bo Fussing HomeGate Inc. Tel +852 2851-8884 Fax +852 2541-9843 URL http://www.homegate.net PGP fingerprint = D7 9F ED 1D E5 B9 62 4F 77 BC D1 33 5B 4E 95 81 For PGP ID & Signature mail empty message to bmf-pgp@homegate.net