From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 3 2:16:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BD3F14CF9 for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 02:16:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from lot.gsoft.com.au (lot.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.106]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA21600; Mon, 3 May 1999 18:45:51 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199905030841.QAA25568@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 18:45:50 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth Subject: RE: Decent network cards for 100Mbit? Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 03-May-99 Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > Having discovered that the Realtek chipset is a flatulent sack of pus, I'm > wondering what results people have had with other PCI network cards, and > what > order of preference they'd put them in. DEC Tulip cards are nice.. I have noticed that when you change media they get confused (you have to flush the arp table and generally kick it a bit) but they seem quite nice. Intel Etherexpress pro 10/100's are probably better but I've only used one for a short while :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message