From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 23 20:31:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4130516A4CE for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:31:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03DDD43D1F for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:31:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D580C5EEC; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:31:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 81678-06; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:31:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-160-236-186.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.160.236.186]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91E335EBF; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:31:31 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41F4099C.1070807@mac.com> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:31:24 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Net Virtual Mailing Lists References: <20050123135753.14384@mail.net-virtual.com> In-Reply-To: <20050123135753.14384@mail.net-virtual.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIC card problems.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:31:34 -0000 Net Virtual Mailing Lists wrote: [ ... ] > [ ... ] It would be nice if somewhere there was > some statement of a "fact" that NIC ____ is known to work well with > FreeBSD. I'm aware of all of the FUD out there, about people beating > their chests saying how wonderful NIC-A is or NIC-B is, and I've tried > 'em all and had problems with each and every one of them so far. Surely > someone out there must use FreeBSD in an environment where the "network > is the bottleneck"^2 - right?.... I have never had a problem with a Intel fxp0 NIC. My company probably has used over fifty of them. I have never had a problem with the 3com 9xx xl0 NICs. About ten of those are in proximity to me over the years. -------- DEC-branded 21x4x Tulip cards have also been good, but I've had three out of 4 Asante cards using a PNIC Tulip lookalike have failed, and I'm dubious about the last one. Avoid Tulip clones. -------- I've not had problems with a sis0 (NatSemi DP83815), but not enough of them to generalize. I've seen mild problems with the vr0 (VIA chipsets) & Broadcom chips, and the Realtek and NE2000 clones that ISPs give to their customers for free may not be worth even that much. -- -Chuck