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Date:      Wed, 6 Jul 2005 14:35:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To:        kirk@strauser.com (Kirk Strauser)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NIC suggestion
Message-ID:  <200507061835.j66IZjiJ025396@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200507061142.36030.kirk@strauser.com>

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> On Wednesday 06 July 2005 11:32, Casey Scott wrote:
> > I am experiencing the same rebooting under network stress that others on
> > this list have reported. The box is using 3com 905b's, and I would like
> > to try another NIC in the box to make sure that this isn't just a driver
> > issue, though I strongly suspect it isn't. Can someone suggest a common
> > 100 MB NIC that has proven to be very stable in 5.x?
> 
> Intel EtherExpress PROs (fxp driver) are pretty much universally respected.
> 
> Kirk Strauser
> 

We have had good experiences with the Intel based (fxp) NICs 
at 10, 100 and 1000 Mb.

////jerry



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