From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 27 21:39:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA26823 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 21:39:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop01.ny.us.ibm.net (pop01.ny.us.ibm.net [165.87.194.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA26816 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 21:39:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by pop01.ny.us.ibm.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id EAA43547; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 04:39:45 GMT Message-Id: <199608280439.EAA43547@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu" , "questions@freefall.freebsd.org" Date: Wed, 28 Aug 96 00:34:02 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Francisco Reyes's Registered PMMail 1.52 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: questions-digest V1 #1276 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 27 Aug 1996 13:23:30 -0700 (PDT), owner-questions-digest@freefall.freebsd.org wrote: >I agree these cards are probably OK (or at least as OK as it gets) >under Win/DOS. Due to the driver quality, I buy $25 NE2000 clones >for noncritical ISA machines (and for home use), SMC cards for more >critical ISA boxes and will buy DEC chip PCI cards for servers in >the future. How are the SMC cards price wise? At work they bought a box (25 I think) so they got a good discount. I plugged a 3C509 today into a FreeBSD box, turned plug and play, and the card has been working ok (just installed it today though). On a 56K line I am getting 4K to 5K average. I think that for such network bandwith almost any card should be fine. :)