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On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, J Wunsch wrote:

> > What card should I get?
> 
> Most people will certainly recommend a card with a DEC chip (many
> vendors build it), or an Intel Etherexpress 100/B.  I haven't used the
> latter myself, but i think wcarchive stands for itself. ;)

  The Intel Pro 100/B is great.  Of the 100mbs cards supported by FreeBSD,
it uses the least CPU.  There some studies done for other os'es on the web
that show this as well.

> -- 
> 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. ;-)
> 
> 

Tom