From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 17 22: 3:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.ufl.edu (sp28fe.nerdc.ufl.edu [128.227.128.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93DBB37B9D0 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 22:03:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from saxonww@ufl.edu) Received: from n44-230.dhnet.ufl.edu (gremlin@[128.227.44.230]) by smtp.ufl.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/2.2.1) with ESMTP id BAA168726; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 01:03:13 -0500 Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 01:03:12 -0500 (EST) From: Will Saxon X-Sender: gremlin@localhost To: "Forrest W. Christian" Cc: Mikhail Teterin , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: good network card (xl0 packet dropping) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Forrest W. Christian wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Will Saxon wrote: > > > Really, if you want a great netowrk card, there are only a couple of > > options. I prefer Intel por/100 cards, I have 3 82557 based ones > > (pro/100B) that work great; the newest 82559 based cards (pro/100+ > > management) go for like $40 and are very very good. > > I would definately second this one. Very very good cards and are very > very reliable. Run them exclusively in my client's high end boxes. > > One possible caveat: I had problems doing an across-the-wire installation > of FreeBSD with the lastest Pro/100 card which has the management and the > boot rom stuff in it. Ended up installing using a "generic" realtec pci > adapter and then putting the Pro/100 in there. I can't say for sure what > the problem was, but the card is running like a champ now (perhaps > something weird with the install kernel?) > What was the problem? I had a problem once doing the same thing with mine, but it was user error - the other side was 100mbit full duplex and I had forgotten to enable full-duplex. REALLY slow :P. > > > FWIW I have two linksys LNE-100TX cards that "work." Havent epxerienced > > drops or anything bad but then again, they arent under heavy use > > either. > > I am a BIG fan of the "generic" cards. I build picobsd based > nat/firewall boxes which run in a 486. I use Davicom and/or realtec based > 10mb/s cards exclusively. For PCI cards, I use cards with the realtec > chipset on them. I have heard nice things about the realtek chipset for low end cards. The linksys ones I have at home are based on the Lite-On PNIC II chip, which is a tulip clone. Not very impressive credentials, but like I said they havent exploded or rendered the rest of the system unusable so they can't be -that- bad :). Uses mx driver (or whatever the new blanket tulip clone driver is). -Will To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message