From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jan 25 11:14:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA13390 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 11:14:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from superior.truenorth.org (ppp024-sm2.sirius.com [205.134.231.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA13382 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 11:14:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by superior.truenorth.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA10663; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 11:14:28 -0800 (PST) From: Josef Grosch Message-Id: <199701251914.LAA10663@superior.truenorth.org> Subject: Re: cheap and good network cards In-Reply-To: from Eric Harley at "Jan 25, 97 10:27:11 am" To: erich@powerwareintl.com (Eric Harley) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 11:14:28 -0800 (PST) Cc: cmccants@chaz.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: jgrosch@sirius.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >At 11:01 PM 1/24/97, Chaz wrote: >>Can anyone say.... "packet loss"? >>Spend the few extra bucks, you be a happier person in the long run. >> > >Im a starving high school student so I didn't have a choice. I picked up a >NE2000 Compatible card at a swap meet for 15 dollars and it works! It has >never failed in the year and a half that I have had it and the thing that >really surprises me is that I hardly ever get any packet loss at all! > > Eric NCA here in San Francisco has NE2000 clones for $20.00. They work nicely. For a basic network card you can't go wrong. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Laugh while you can, monkey boy ! | FreeBSD 2.1.6 jgrosch@sirius.com | - John Warfin - | UNIX for the masses