From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 6 7:29: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-d.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.13.43.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7E0D37B417 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 07:29:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by turtle.looksharp.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id BA8743EBA; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:29:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turtle.looksharp.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B735EBAA6; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:29:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:29:35 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Marcel Prisi Cc: Subject: Re: What NIC to choose ? In-Reply-To: <019a01c16629$4b151650$8d01a8c0@gastroleader.com> Message-ID: <20011106102212.B42904-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Marcel Prisi wrote: >Hi all ! > >After having loads of trouble with Intel Etherexpress, Netgear, and others >NIC, what card REALLY work on FreeBSD ? I really like the Intel EtherExpress cards using the fxp driver and have had great success with them. Then again, every single one I have OTOH is builtin to the motherboard, so I've never bought one standalone. All of the server hardware I buy has them builtin. As for cheap NICs to put in desktop machines, I _really_ like my Accton EN1207D-TX NICs. They use the rl driver and contain the MPX5038 chip. It's a RealTek 8129/8139 workalike that in my experience is much more reliable than the original RealTek chip. I see close to full wire speed on them. I also have had very bad luck with tulip clones. Either get an honest-to-Bob tulip card or stay the hell away from them. Yes, some people use them with success, but I have seen tulip clones deployed in beowulf compute nodes which died at a rate of one NIC per 50 machines per month. Since that purchasing mistake (which occured before my arrival) only true Intel eepros are allowed in compute nodes. -- "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a law against it by that time." -- /usr/games/fortune, 07/30/2001 Brandon D. Valentine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message