Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 20:17:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jaime Bozza <wheelman@nuc.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Driver Question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970422201402.1074A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970422175640.805A-100000@lepton.nuc.net>
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On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Jaime Bozza wrote: > > The 3c900 has very little onboard cache; if this machine is going to be > > busy, you may not want to use this. > > Ok, thanks for the response. <G> Any recommendations then for PCI-based > cards? Is the 3C905 (10/100) card better at all? Or should I just stick > with my trusty 3C509's? The 900 is 10/100 as well, if I remember correctly. The 905 may be better. (It may have less cache because the PCI bus is probed faster than the ISA bus is...) > Or, perhaps, another manufacturer? Have you heard much about the Intel > PCI Ethernet cards? The Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B is supported quite well in FreeBSD; also any DE21x4x based cards (Kingston, SMC, Accton, Dayna, others) work very nicely. Is there a requirement for 100mbit? The EtherExpress is known to work at 100 megabit. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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