From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 2 06:42:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA25963 for current-outgoing; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 06:42:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id GAA25946 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 06:40:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id NAA12138; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 13:23:52 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199710021223.NAA12138@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Which PCI Ethernet card is best for FreeBSD-current? To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 13:23:52 +0100 (MET) Cc: ache@nagual.pp.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199710021304.JAA22567@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Oct 2, 97 09:04:26 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Could someone share his experience with me and tell about 2-3 best models? > > Stability is more essential than performance for me. > > Intel EE Pro/100B, without question. Second choice, DEC DE500 and > some clones. Never buy anything from 3Com. you may want to notice though that the data sheets for the DEC21x4x are available on line so if you have problems with some driver you can at least try and fix them yourself. Not sure if the data sheets for the Pro/100B are available for the casual user or without NDA. Secondly the 2114x is used by many many vendors so you can find these cards very cheap. Cheers Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________