From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 14 21:25:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD45F14C9C for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:25:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mw@theatre.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id GAA19271; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 06:25:41 +0100 (CET) Received: by theatre.sax.de (8.9.3/8.6.12-s1) id GAA50401; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 06:21:42 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 06:21:41 +0100 From: Martin Welk To: Arcady Genkin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Pro/100+ nic Message-ID: <19991215062141.R13327@theatre.sax.de> References: <87wvqghocd.fsf@main.wgaf.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <87wvqghocd.fsf@main.wgaf.net>; from a.genkin@utoronto.ca on Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 10:31:14PM -0500 Organization: Private UUCP/Usenet site. X-Phone: +49 3731 458867 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 10:31:14PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Is this Pro/100+ supported? I found only reference to Intel Pro/100B > in LINT. From the man page for the fxp driver: The fxp driver provides support for the EtherExpress Pro/10, Pro/100B, and Pro/100+ PCI Fast Ethernet adapters based on the Intel i82557 or i82559 ethernet chips. > If yes, is this card a good performer? Sorry to say, I have ``only'' Pro/100B available to speak of. > On a side note, any recommendations for inexpensive yet > well-performing 100 Mbps cards? I don't mind buying second-hand. In order of preference: - DEC 21x4x based adapters like D-Link 500TX (not longer continued) (medium price, very good performance, IMO best compatibility with most operating systems) - Intel EtherExpress 10/100 (higher price, very good performance, options like wake-on-LAN and net-booting, I don't need them - I prefer them before anything else for little servers and desktops where I'm going to use NFS) - Via-Rhine based (vr driver says, VIA VT3043 Rhine I 10/100BaseTX, vendor says, D-Link 530TX :-) ) (they are quite cheap and give some good performance, but seem to cause little higher CPU load, but not comparable with those RealTek based things) Regards, Martin -- /| /| | /| / ,,You know, there's a lot of opportunities, / |/ | artin |/ |/ elk if you're knowing to take them, you know, there's a lot of opportunities, Freiberg/Saxony, Germany if there aren't you can make them, mw@sax.de / mw@theatre.sax.de make or break them!'' (Tennant/Lowe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message