Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 18:32:06 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good, cheap 100BaseT Ethernet cards? Message-ID: <199812150232.SAA01836@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 Dec 1998 18:36:20 MST." <4.1.19981214183232.06e5ddc0@mail.lariat.org>
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> At 05:22 PM 12/14/98 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > >The Netgear unit you've mentioned will work OK (it's a 'de' card) > > Not anymore. They have a proprietary chipset now, and the ones that > use the DEC chipset are gone. The new ones are supported by one of Bill Paul's drivers; check the collection... > >just about any "NE2000-compatible" ISA card will be fine. If possible, > >get one with jumpers rather than a setup program... > > Is there such a thing as an "NE2000-compatible" 100BaseT card? Not AFAIK. 100bT and ISA just don't get along, and the NE2000 programming model is such that you max out at about 10Mbps anyway. > As far > as I can tell, they're all 10BaseT and half duplex. (We currently > have an NE1000 clone, believe it or not, in one of our servers. > It works fine (it can outrun a T1, and that's the feed it's on), > but it's due for an upgrade to handle increased traffic on the local > LANs. Those LANs are going up to 100 Mbps, with switches, soon. Definitely go PCI then. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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