From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 20 20:49:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EC0437B859 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 20:49:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA04605; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 21:49:30 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000420214146.041b3160@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 21:46:34 -0600 To: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Best NIC / Best CDR-CDRW In-Reply-To: <8do7o6$2ui1$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <38FCAC4B.1B007400@uwi.tt> <4.1.20000418231403.022c19f0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 06:35 PM 4/20/2000 , Christian Weisgerber wrote: >I've been nagging since that the machine with the CD burner needs >a 100Base-TX card. In fact, it has a Realtek one now, which was >exceedingly cheap, but then we've noticed a certain lack of 100Mbit/s- >capable switch ports. These days, Netgear's 10/100 Mbps switches are really cheap. And they're really fast; some even have the ability to use cut-through switching when the LAN is clear. There's no reason to get them instead of hubs. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message