From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 15 00:17:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA25765 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 00:17:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA25759 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 00:17:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id KAA04712; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 10:17:30 +0200 (IST) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 10:17:30 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: Robert Chalmers cc: bsd Subject: Re: What's a good ethernet card? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Robert Chalmers wrote: > What's a good Ethernet card to put in a Pentium 120 box, running > the 2.2 Snap. I don't necessarily want the most expensive trailblazing > shuttle launching piece of whizbangery, just a good solid, supported > ethercard. 3Com maybe? Accton? D-Link? We use DEC cards (DE450 for 10mbps and DE500 for 100mbps). They are not that cheap, but DEC has excellent service (at least here in Israel), so we buy almost everything from them. If anything goes wrong they simply replace whatever you ask them to, no questions asked (whole machines, $5000 network hubs, whatever). > > any ideas? > ta > bob > -- > The China House Sheng Huo Jiu Shi Dou Zheng > robert@chalmers.com.au for Whirled Peas http://www.chalmers.com.au > Location: Whitsunday Web Works. 21'7" S, 149'14" E. > Nadav