Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:25:32 -0500 From: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" <babolo@links.ru>, mwade@cdc.net (Mike Wade) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_fxp driver info (which card then?) Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.0.20010126122411.02291430@mail.etinc.com> In-Reply-To: <200101261643.TAA07260@aaz.links.ru> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101260844390.34314-100000@net-ninja.com>
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At 11:43 AM 01/26/2001, Aleksandr A.Babaylov wrote: >Mike Wade writes: > > 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? >3C905 I disagree. The if_fxp driver is far superior to the if_xl driver. In other OS's your mileage may vary. DB >-- >@BABOLO http://links.ru/ > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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