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Date:      Thu, 9 Mar 2000 10:56:19 +0100 (CET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
To:        Boris Staeblow <balu@dva.in-berlin.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bridging broken in -current AND -stable
Message-ID:  <200003090956.KAA70395@info.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <20000309094603.A66667@dva.in-berlin.de> from Boris Staeblow at "Mar 9, 2000 09:46:03 am"

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> > let me doubt it. i have had a fair amount of trouble with these nics,
> > maybe it's driver's fault, but still... anyways, the driver is
> > not as easy to work on as others.
> 
> For future investments: which nics do you recommend?
> (stable driver, speed...) fxp?

probably, yes, though the whole bunch of drivers contributed by Bill
Paul look interesting as well (i have no idea on how good is the hardware,
e.g. the rl 8139 is not such a good card).

> Which nics are capable for bridging now in -current? ed, fxp, ...?

and 'rl' i think.

> To prevent the page faults in the upcomping release the bridging support
> should be disabled in if_de.
> Maybe the manpage should note the real supported nics.

wish i had more time.

	cheers
	luigi
> 
> Boris
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