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To: Richard Laxton <richard@real.net.au>
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Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress vs DEC PCI chipsets 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 10 Jun 1997 08:53:40 +1000."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 17:55:22 -0700
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>Secondly, Do I use Intel EtherExpress 100B TX cards or the DEC 240xx type
>cards? Does either have a CPU advantage? Are there any stability issues
>with either card? What are people's experiences? I have seen conflicting
>reports from this list ranging from "don't get the intel" to ftp.cdrom.com
>uses the intel (so it must be good).

   The Intel Pro/100B driver is much more CPU efficient than the DEC driver
and is well supported by the author (me). The only known problem at the moment
is that the newer Pro/100B's have a different PHY chip that the driver doesn't
yet know about and this results in full duplex operation not working with
those cards. This is a temporary situation, however, and will be fixed as soon
as I get one of the newer cards, the proper documentation, and my ethernet
switch working again.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project