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From: Larry Librettez <lipshitz909@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Who's got the cheapest 100-BT Ethernet NIC? 
To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
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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.
> 
> 


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