From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jun 5 11:47:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA18493 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 11:47:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from panzer.plutotech.com (ken@panzer.plutotech.com [206.168.67.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA18439 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 11:47:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.plutotech.com) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.plutotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id MAA07195; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 12:46:54 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Message-Id: <199806051846.MAA07195@panzer.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: Inter EtherExpress PRO/100+ or 10/100B In-Reply-To: <199806051629.MAA00332@fault.rstcorp.com> from "Viren R. Shah" at "Jun 5, 98 12:29:57 pm" To: viren@rstcorp.com Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 12:46:53 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28s (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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