From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 6 1:35:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [64.0.106.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31B1C37B44B for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 01:35:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA57239; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 04:33:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 04:33:29 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Cc: Mike Loiterman , "'Marcel Prisi'" , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What NIC to choose ? In-Reply-To: <20011105235109.A24306@leviathan.inethouston.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 02:18:29PM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: > > I would go with a 3com 3c509 if can find one. They are cheap and work > > with Windows, BSD, or Linux. You never know where you'll end up! > > didn't the 590's have a lot of problems especially with FreeBSD or am > I just remembering from 3.x There have been some issues with the 3c509 driver that I've been unable to duplicate locally. It could be that all of my test boxes were 486s and not fast enough to allow the problem to manifest itself. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | For Great Justice! | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message