From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Apr 23 8: 7:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from madeline.boneyard.lawrence.ks.us (madeline.boneyard.lawrence.ks.us [24.124.26.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C57B37B423 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 08:07:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd-alpha@boneyard.lawrence.ks.us) Received: from madeline.boneyard.lawrence.ks.us (madeline.boneyard.lawrence.ks.us [24.124.26.25]) by madeline.boneyard.lawrence.ks.us (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3NF74O41065; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:07:04 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bsd-alpha@boneyard.lawrence.ks.us) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:07:04 -0500 (CDT) From: "Stephen D. Spencer" To: Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network CARD. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it wrote: > > Can a standard PCI network card work on AlphaStation 255 ?? > Which PCI NIC added on the PCI slot can work with FreeBSD/alpha ?? > Actually I wanted to implement a FreeBSD/alpha NAT box! > You bet. I'm currently using a 3Com 10/100 card and have had 0 difficulties. I've also had good luck with the tulip cards, and for fun I even tried an RL8139. I would highly recommend staying away from newer Intel NICs (see fxp thread on freebsd- hackers for the sick, sad truth) -- Stephen Spencer UNIX Systems Administrator Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dept. University of Kansas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message