From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Nov 16 14:43:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA27761 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:43:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from seg.fault.net (seg.fault.net [207.96.19.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA27741 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:43:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from awood@fault.net) Received: (qmail 7489 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Nov 1998 17:42:52 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Nov 1998 17:42:52 -0000 Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:42:52 -0500 (EST) From: austin wood X-Sender: awood@seg To: Chris cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EISA ethernet card In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've had trouble with the 3c509's. I had my box set up as a gateway, and it seems to be blocking tcp fragments. But, I think that may only be since no one else is having any problems. On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Sr. Ruiz wrote: > On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Chris wrote: > >hello all, > >i was wondering if anyone had some thoughts as to a good low price EISA > >ethernet card that would work well with 2.2-stable. this is for an old > >dell 4560/XE. any input would be great > > 3Com 3c509's are okay. I bought about 40 of them (used) for $8/ea. > (10baseT only -- can't remember exactly where I bought them from). I've > had no problems, and they seem to work perfectly so far. Then there's the > good 'ol NE2000s... those two are the only low-priced ISA card I can think > of, that is widely supported/etc. > > If you can't find any place that sells them for $10/ea or so, let me > know, and I will attempt to find where I purchased from (dig through my > box full of receipts). > > Hope this helps. Good luck. > > -a > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message