From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 2 22:43:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA19400 for current-outgoing; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:43:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 586quick166.saturn-tech.com ([207.229.19.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA19392 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:43:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (drussell@localhost) by 586quick166.saturn-tech.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id XAA02392; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 23:42:44 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: 586quick166.saturn-tech.com: drussell owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 23:42:43 -0600 (MDT) From: Doug Russell To: lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov cc: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which PCI Ethernet card is best for FreeBSD-current? In-Reply-To: <199710021737.KAA07677@george.arc.nasa.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 2 Oct 1997 lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov wrote: > In retrospect it was probably a bad choice, but, so far, my > 3Com 3C595 has worked OK, including for multicast, although > network performance is not really an observable on that > system. It was fairly expensive, although it was the cheapest > PCI card I could get at the time. A couple of weeks later, I have 3 3c905TX cards here, all of which seem to work great. I'm sur ethey aren't the best, but at 10 Mbps I consistently get 1 Meg/sec FTP rates between them, something that I didn't usually get with my old DEC 10 Mbps card. I'm sure at 100 Mbps they wouldn't fare quite as well as the Intel cards, but I'll probably have migrated them do some Windoze machines by the time I get a 100 Mbps hub. :) Later...... Mr. :) Happy is really cute in this font. :)