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Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 16:36:06 -0500
From: Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com>
To: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu>
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Subject: Re: Rock Solid System
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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