Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 16:36:06 -0500 From: Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com> To: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu> Cc: patb@commlitho.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rock Solid System Message-ID: <19970502163606.15575@shell.futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199705021752.MAA08231@beowulf.utmb.edu>; from M. L. Dodson on Fri, May 02, 1997 at 12:52:49PM -0500 References: <199705021752.MAA08231@beowulf.utmb.edu>
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> The Dec DC21x4x chip-based cards (de driver) are generally better choices > for PCI-based ethernet cards on FreeBSD because of the quality of the > driver. The driver for the 3Com cards has a somewhat checkered history, > although the general lack of questions about them over the past several > months would seem to indicate that the stability is now pretty good. > I've seen several postings to the effect that 3Com no longer sets any > kind of quality standard in ethernet cards. I wouldn't trust a business > to one. This was the topic of a recent thread. Get the Intel NIC instead. I believe the model name is EtherPro 100B PCI. The de driver is still being worked on and I don't think the latest versions from NetBSD has been incorporated yet. The Intel board is what cdrom.com uses and that should tell you something. Tim
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