Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 14:02:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Harlan Stenn <harlan@mail.compus.com> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: For ISA and ethernet, what's better than an NE2000? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970820135707.7547A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <9708202012.AA10859@compus.com>
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On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Harlan Stenn wrote: > For ISA machines, what's better than an NE2000 (or clone) network card? > > I seems like the Intel EtherPro/10+ looks good, as might an NE2100 (Kingston > has these). > > I'm looking for a better card and I'd also like to know that the FreeBSD driver > for the card is good, too. > > What do folks recommend? > > (I'm trying to avoid NE2000 cards because I'm tired of cranking down the NFS > read and write sizes to 1024 when I use those cards). > > Thanks... > > H > > > For ISA cards, look for something with shared memory. The SMC Ultra/16 is good with 16KB of shared-memory. The newer SMC EtherEZ 16 isn't as good, because it only has 8KB of shared-memory :(. The SMC Ultra/16 uses the ed drive, and is reliable. Tom
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