From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 26 9:16:33 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 B7A5637B698 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:16:14 -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 MAA78094; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:18:40 GMT (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010126122411.02291430@mail.etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:25:32 -0500 To: "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" , mwade@cdc.net (Mike Wade) From: Dennis Subject: Re: if_fxp driver info (which card then?) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200101261643.TAA07260@aaz.links.ru> References: 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 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