From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 3 1:28: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de [194.233.237.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5099514EFA for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 01:28:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cracauer@gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (8.9.3/8.7.3) id KAA30399; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 10:27:55 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 10:27:55 +0100 From: Martin Cracauer To: Nathan Kinsman Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE hardware specs, advice/experience requested Message-ID: <20000103102755.A29541@cons.org> References: <38703D1E.14E37458@mentisworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <38703D1E.14E37458@mentisworks.com>; from Nathan Kinsman on Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 12:09:34AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <38703D1E.14E37458@mentisworks.com>, Nathan Kinsman wrote: > Intel EtherExpress PRO/100+ Dual Port NIC (this is recognized as two fxp > devices?) > > I have not been running CURRENT extensively, so I would like to know > anyone's experiences with any of the above hardware, or any > recommendations on hardware with a better price/performance ratio at a > low thermal (chassis is very compact). Last time I checked the fxp chips got much hotter than either a DEC 21143 or a realtek 8139 (which is otherwise unrecommended). Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message