Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:31:24 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Net Virtual Mailing Lists <mailinglists@net-virtual.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIC card problems.... Message-ID: <41F4099C.1070807@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20050123135753.14384@mail.net-virtual.com> References: <20050123135753.14384@mail.net-virtual.com>
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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
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