Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 12:50:24 -0600 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> To: Jorge Aldana <jorge@salk.edu> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: good network card (xl0 packet dropping) Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20000218125024.009efd00@207.227.119.2> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002172257350.10263-100000@purkinje.salk.ed u> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002172334270.21663-100000@workhorse.iMach.com>
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At 11:08 PM 2/17/00 -0800, Jorge Aldana wrote: >Before you go out and buy any card make sure the network you're plugging >it into is going to work with it. Huh, you say. Well we had all Intel >Pro/100's working just fine (although we had to muck with ifconfig as >follows for 100BT ifconfig_fxp0="inet xx.xx.xx.xx netmask >255.255.255.0 media 100baseTX), then we bought a new switch and the Intel >cards went bonkers and caused several problems. Needless to say when we >switch to 3Com all was fine, now we burn those Intel's. Not that Intel >makes a bad card or 3Com is better, they just happen to work so 3Com it is. So >don't just look at the card, the network you're plugging it in to matters >as well, switch, hub, bla bla bla... What switch? And why set the media? "Bonkers" is a bit vague. The Intel autosenses speed/duplex well with Intel, 3Com, and Cisco switches from my dealings with and does so with FBSD or Win 9x/NT. Can't say the same about 3Com 9xx (old and new). YMMV Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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