From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 13 8:10:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (heorot.1nova.com [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ECE437B413 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 08:10:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@1nova.com) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3B74A18EA; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 08:10:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2874C18E9; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 08:10:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 08:10:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM Cc: "Newton, Harry" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Network cards: 3com XL rumour ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I have just read on the OpenBSD faq that 3COM XL cards were not upto much: > > is this true ( i.e. what is the experience of folks out there ) and is it > > worth my changing to, say, an Intel Ether Express Pro. If they're working for you, don't mess with it... :) I can confirm though that those paticular cards have problems from personal experience. I'd personally go for Kingston's, but I've never had problems with the Intel cards. :) Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://hw.shatteredcrystal.com ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message