From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 23 22:31:20 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 A12BF16A4CE for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:31:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ticketswitch.com (mail.ticketswitch.com [194.200.93.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35C6D43D1D for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:31:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petefrench@ticketswitch.com) Received: from [172.16.1.6] (helo=dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk) by mail.ticketswitch.com with esmtp (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1CsqGH-0008OS-OB; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:31:13 +0000 Received: from petefrench by dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk with local (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1CsqGH-0001yJ-KX; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:31:13 +0000 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, mailinglists@net-virtual.com In-Reply-To: <20050123135753.14384@mail.net-virtual.com> Message-Id: From: Pete French Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:31:13 +0000 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 22:31:20 -0000 > You know, I don't really care what NIC I use - I really don't. I'm not > so much interested in trying to figure out why this NIC is giving me > grief as much as I am in finding one that will work. I would just like > someone somewhere to tell me what is a stable NIC to use for FreeBSD, As several other people have mentioned, Intel fxp cards work. I have used a wide variety of these on several system and they all perform excellently and I have never had a problem. Am currently running them in a number of production environments. -pcf.