From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 27 20:31:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA22016 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:31:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jamesn.locker13.com (root@here.what.net [207.136.36.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA22010 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:31:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jamesn@here.what.net) Received: from localhost (741 bytes) by jamesn.locker13.com via sendmail with P:stdio/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) (ident using unix) id for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 22:31:00 -0500 (CDT) (Smail-3.2.0.98 1997-Oct-16 #3 built 1997-Oct-30) Message-Id: Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 22:31:00 -0500 (CDT) From: James Nuckolls To: scott@iprg.nokia.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FDDI NIC In-Reply-To: <35BD185E.4487EB71@iprg.nokia.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In mailinglist.freebsd.stable, you wrote: >I see that FreeBSD supports the DEC FDDI cards. Does anyone >have any experience in using these cards? How good/stable >is the support? It's stable. That's all I can really say about it, because I never seem to have any problems. Other than the usual lEnti PCI bandwidth problems, they are quite speedy. I do, however, like the fact that they actually compain about ring wraps, where as my OSF boxes just don't care (until they run out of bufcache due to ring isolation..). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message