From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 9 1:57:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from info.iet.unipi.it (info.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB93637B535 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 01:57:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@info.iet.unipi.it) Received: (from luigi@localhost) by info.iet.unipi.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA70395; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 10:56:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from luigi) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200003090956.KAA70395@info.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: bridging broken in -current AND -stable In-Reply-To: <20000309094603.A66667@dva.in-berlin.de> from Boris Staeblow at "Mar 9, 2000 09:46:03 am" To: Boris Staeblow Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 10:56:19 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message