From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 11 11:46:58 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA14780 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 11:46:58 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA14775 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 11:46:55 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA13563; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 11:42:43 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199510111842.LAA13563@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Best Ethernet Card To: harverso@aztec.co.za Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 11:42:43 -0700 (MST) Cc: sfinn@village.ios.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Tony Harverson" at Oct 11, 95 08:14:50 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 906 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > I am looking for recommendations as to the best PCI 10Mb Ethernet adapter > > for use with FreeBSD. I am seeing things like the 3Com 509 driver is > > buggy, etc...So just what is the best as far as compatibility and > > performance? > > Well, I don't know why the driver was originally labelled buggy, But > I have hgad no problems with it. I am running a router with one of > these on each interface and getting very nice perfromance out of > them. Because on systems that don't issue a bus reset on system reset, the card isn't reset, and the probe only works on reset state cards. A cold boot every time will work, while on some boxes a warm boot is flakey. You (apparently) like me don't buy hardware that takes shortcuts. But many people do. 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.