From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 26 5:53: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from net-ninja.com (cc213180-a.plymr1.tn.home.com [65.8.203.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AF7837B6A6 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 05:52:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by net-ninja.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7A2D16E989; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:51:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by net-ninja.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 632DB176165; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:51:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:51:32 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Wade X-Sender: mwade@net-ninja.com To: Greg Lehey Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_fxp driver info (which card then?) In-Reply-To: <20010126141808.D1222@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > Performance isn't even the main thing. As I said earlier, it's plain > bloody unreliable. Linux people avoid the EtherExpress because they > think something is wrong with the card. They were surprised when I > reported that it works without any problems under FreeBSD. Do we > really want to change that? Slightly off subject but with all the discussion about not Intel playing nicely with the FreeBSD developers... I've always had the best reliability, performance, and lower CPU usage with the Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B cards in FreeBSD (and Solaris x86 for that matter). Are there better cards out there that I should be looking at? --- Mike Wade (mwade@cdc.net) Chief Technical Officer CDC Internet, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message