Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 13:01:24 -0400 (EDT) From: "John T. Farmer" <jfarmer@sabre.goldsword.com> To: joe@pavilion.net, rdugaue@calweb.com Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, jfarmer@goldsword.com Subject: Re: Most stable network card.. Message-ID: <199705071701.NAA24557@sabre.goldsword.com>
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On Wed, 7 May 1997 09:38:14 -0700 Robert Du Gaue <rdugaue@calweb.com> said: >> On Wed, May 07, 1997 at 11:45:28AM -0400, Jamie Rishaw wrote: >> > Has anyone agreed upon a really stable, fast (10Mb) ethernet card >> > for FreeBSD? >> > >> > My 3com's have been kinda flaky.. but i've never had problems with SMC .. >> > >> > comments? >> > >> > -jamie >> >> We run SMC's as well. Not a dicky bird of a problem (that couldn't >> be tied to elsewhere of course ;) > >We've used SMC products for quite some time as well. We do think there's a >problem with heavy NFS activity with this card, but there's so many >different variables that it's not 100% for sure. > >We recently tried a couple of new cards from a recommendation. These are >the Intel PCI 10/100 cards. At $79 you can't beat the price, and I'm told >these are the only cards that support Full Duplex at 100BT. So far we've >been impressed, but we haven't swapped the card yet into a heavy >production machine. Is the key to getting an efficent and robust card the present of the Dec PCI-Ethernet chipset? If this is true, then are there any other reasons to select one brand over another? The reason I ask is that I've been seeing the D-Link PCI cards (which use the DEC chipset) in the $50 range (quantity 1). Since I'm about to upgrade some servers (old EISA machines with 3c579's and other with 509's), I would like to select a decent PCI card for them. I'm primiarly concerned with FreeBSD performance (all servers, Web, News, Mail, NFS, etc.) with them (except for one client who keeps talking about WinNt...) So what what should we be looking for? John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John T. Farmer Proprietor, GoldSword Systems jfarmer@goldsword.com Public Internet Access in East Tennessee dial-in (423)470-9953 for info, e-mail to info@goldsword.com Network Design, Internet Services & Servers, Consulting
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