Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 12:46:53 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> To: viren@rstcorp.com Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Inter EtherExpress PRO/100+ or 10/100B Message-ID: <199806051846.MAA07195@panzer.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <199806051629.MAA00332@fault.rstcorp.com> from "Viren R. Shah" at "Jun 5, 98 12:29:57 pm"
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Viren R. Shah wrote... > > > We are getting a new NIC for our FreeBSD NFS server (we are having > problems with a 3COM 3c905 with spontaneous reboots and NFS > timeouts on a 100baseT network). > > >From the mailing list archives, it seems that the Intel EtherExpress > cards have the best driver (fxp). IS there any preference between the > PRO 100+ and the PRO 10/100B? Is one better than the other? Can they > both do autonegotiation, and full-duplex (as in does the driver work > equally well with both cards)? We've got tons of both (Pro/100B and Pro/100+) cards here, and they both work fine. The B has an 82557 and separate PHY chip, and I think the Pro/100+ has an 82558, with the PHY part on board. A friend of mine has done tests, and says that the Pro/100+ is faster. In any case, it's newer. The driver works fine with either card, though. They can both do autonegotiaion, and I believe they can both do full duplex, although I've never tried it out. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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