Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 16:17:14 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm) Cc: jmb@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-current Proxy Server in our company (vs. Sun) Message-ID: <199601211517.QAA25643@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960121161817.10073A-100000@knobel.gun.de> from "Andreas Klemm" at Jan 21, 96 04:19:08 pm
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As Andreas Klemm wrote: > > > either way a 3C509 MAY not be good enough. the driver in 1.1.5.1 > > lost interrupts occasionally. i dont know if this has been fixed or not. > > So what other 10MBit TP ethernet card (PCI or ISA) would > be recommended ? For ISA, the beloved SMC 8013 card seems to be the overall best choice. The Lance chips are also fine (Am7990-based boards), they are heavily used in many workstations. PC NIC's with them are rather rare. For PCI, the DEC 2104X-based cards are certainly the first choice, or the 3c590 with the `vx' driver pulled out of -current. See my other mail. I've heard that the 3c595 doesn't run well yet (it's a 10/100 Mbit/s board). I would generally avoid NE1000, NE2000, 3C503, 3C509 for heavy-loaded servers. Note that not all 8013 clones are of good quality. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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