From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 3 8:44:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B80E14D5E for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 08:44:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA01229; Mon, 3 May 1999 09:44:24 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <372DC456.D1653941@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 09:44:22 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Decent network cards for 100Mbit? References: <199905030841.QAA25568@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Yeah, the 8129/8139 leave a lot to be desired. I've been through this a lot lately, and have just replaced a bunch of 3c905 and 3c905B cards with LinkSys EtherFast (LNE100TX) cards. Our through is still not stellar, but much better than the 3c905s or the onboard EtherExpress Pro 100B on one of the machines. The LinkSys cards use the LiteOn PNIC chip, which is a "follow-on" to the DEC Tulip. There is a driver for it in 3.x (device pn), you'd have to back-port it to 2.2.x if you want to use it there. I've only had them for a few days but so far everything has come up roses. They're selling at warehouse.com for $29.99 with a $10 rebate, making them about the cost of an expensive lunch. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message