From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 17 23:35:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nyct.net (bsd4.nyct.net [204.141.86.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AD2837B803 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 23:35:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from efutch@nyct.net) Received: from bsd1.nyct.net (efutch@bsd1.nyct.net [204.141.86.3]) by mail.nyct.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA14861; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 02:35:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from efutch@nyct.net) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 02:35:13 -0500 (EST) From: "Eric D. Futch" To: Mikhail Teterin Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: good network card (xl0 packet dropping) In-Reply-To: <200002180530.AAA04558@rtfm.newton> 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 Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Mikhail Teterin wrote: >Jeffrey J. Mountin once stated: > >=Frankly I can't see anyone using a 3Com considering all the problems >=that crop up on the lists, but then I've been happy with Intel NIC >=since the Pro100B came out. ;) > >Ok, so what about those cards that are based on the Digital's >chipset(s)? > > -mi > > Our servers here are Kingston NIC's using Digital 21140A. We've never had any problems with them at all. We've got Cisco switches and I can't remember ever having a problem with any network cards in general. The 3Com card in my box at home died a mysterious death however, so I'm not sure if I'd want to go through that again. Now if I could just manage to cram a PCI NIC into my SGI Indy I'd be happy. The NIC on board died mysteriously also. But hey it's just a toy anyway. -- Eric Futch New York Connect.Net, Ltd. efutch@nyct.net Technical Support Staff http://www.nyct.net (212) 293-2620 "Bringing New York The Internet Access It Deserves" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message