From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 18 13:19: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from malasada.lava.net (malasada.lava.net [199.222.42.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A331037BAB0 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 13:18:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cliftonr@lava.net) Received: from localhost (1980 bytes) by malasada.lava.net via sendmail with P:stdio/R:inet_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) (ident using unix) id for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 11:18:50 -1000 (HST) (Smail-3.2.0.106 1999-Mar-31 #3 built 1999-Dec-7) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 11:18:50 -1000 From: Clifton Royston To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Cc: Jorge Aldana , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: good network card (xl0 packet dropping) Message-ID: <20000218111850.D6162@lava.net> References: <3.0.3.32.20000218125024.009efd00@207.227.119.2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.20000218125024.009efd00@207.227.119.2> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 12:50:24PM -0600, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > 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. Add HP Procurve switches to that list, which are really great value. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- LavaNet Systems Architect -- cliftonr@lava.net The named which can be named is not the Eternal named. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message