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David,
Thanks that is good news. Especially since I can get the intel for $5
*less* than a no-name brand DEC card... wierd.

Richard.

At 17:55 9/06/97 -0700, David Greenman wrote:
>>Secondly, Do I use Intel EtherExpress 100B TX cards or the DEC 240xx type
>>cards? Does either have a CPU advantage? Are there any stability issues
>>with either card? What are people's experiences? I have seen conflicting
>>reports from this list ranging from "don't get the intel" to ftp.cdrom.com
>>uses the intel (so it must be good).
>
>   The Intel Pro/100B driver is much more CPU efficient than the DEC driver
>and is well supported by the author (me). The only known problem at the
moment
>is that the newer Pro/100B's have a different PHY chip that the driver
doesn't
>yet know about and this results in full duplex operation not working with
>those cards. This is a temporary situation, however, and will be fixed as
soon
>as I get one of the newer cards, the proper documentation, and my ethernet
>switch working again.
>
>-DG
>
>David Greenman
>Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
>
>