From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 26 9:11:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9854A37B401 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:11:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from dbsys.etinc.com (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA78062; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:13:34 GMT (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010126120015.0228fc90@mail.etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:20:25 -0500 To: Mike Wade , Greg Lehey From: Dennis Subject: Re: if_fxp driver info (which card then?) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <20010126141808.D1222@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 08:51 AM 01/26/2001, Mike Wade wrote: >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? Why dont some people get the point even when you hit them in the head with a hammer? The point is that the driver quality is more important than the "card" To get completely off base, this is which is why we SELL our software. Implementation technique is usually more decisive in determining functionality and performance than the hardware itself. its something that people in the know are willing to pay for (sometimes). Certainly some hardware is better than others, but a bad driver with good hardware is useless. DB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message