Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 20:36:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Larry Librettez <lipshitz909@yahoo.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: Gunther Schadow <gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who's got the cheapest 100-BT Ethernet NIC? Message-ID: <20010410033647.5500.qmail@web13202.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200104100109.f3A19XP30889@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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Yawn. I've never had probs with rl whatsoever. The intel 10/100 however, seems to drop more packets than the rl, and you must pay twice the $$$ to find that out for yourself. --- David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> wrote: > Larry Librettez writes: > > I have several D-Link DFE-530TX+ 10/100 PCI NIC's > > living on my network. They have never let me down > the > > 2 years I've used them. Can be had for $19.99 at > > CompUSA, Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. I've seen > them > > for as low as $14.99 on sale. > > > > It uses the Realtek 8139 chip and in LINT the > device > > driver is 'rl'. > > Have you ever read /usr/src/sys/pci/if_rl.c? > > [...] > /* > * The RealTek 8139 PCI NIC redefines the meaning of > 'low end.' This is > * probably the worst PCI ethernet controller ever > made, with the possible > * exception of the FEAST chip made by SMC. The 8139 > supports bus-master > * DMA, but it has a terrible interface that > nullifies any performance > * gains that bus-master DMA usually offers. > * > [...] > > Couple of months ago found a vendor with a box of > pulled Intel 10/100's > and talked them down to 3 for $24. All 3 worked, as > did the other 6 > purchased by those looking over my shoulder. > > At one time knew of a vendor selling tested pulls > for $25 on the net. > > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net > ===================================================================== > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten > percent of its > capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating > system. > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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