Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:08:50 -0400 From: "Jerry Murdock" <jmurdock@itraktech.com> To: "Justin C Sherrill" <justin@shiningsilence.com>, <questions@freebsd.org> Cc: "Gavin Kenny" <gavinkenny@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: Re: Recommend a NIC Message-ID: <017c01c10ed3$28dc5060$0201a8c0@bellsouth.net> References: <20010717111807.19659.qmail@web20008.mail.yahoo.com> <01071710452601.00402@roc-24-169-96-227.rochester.rr.com>
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But I have been bitten twice with situations where RealTek's caused BSODs under NT. Considering I usually stick with Intel/3com, that's a fairly high percentage. The first case was isolated, but reproducible, the second case is a commonly known issue for iMail (an NT SMTP/POP/IMAP... server) users. It's probably just a problem with the Windoze driver, and unlikely to affect FreeBSD, but the incidents were over a year apart, and the problems went away with other NICs. It's not worth the time to deal with problems, so I usually spend the extra $40 and get Intel for servers. I'm less picky about workstations. Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin C Sherrill" <justin@shiningsilence.com> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Cc: "Gavin Kenny" <gavinkenny@yahoo.co.uk> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 10:45 AM Subject: Re: Recommend a NIC > On Tuesday 17 July 2001 07:18, you wrote: > > > My boss has said I can buy some new NIC's. So what > > does everyone suggest? > > Other than the occasional glitch, there's very little difference between > Ethernet cards by manufacturer. Find a cheap one (or 10, in your case), make > sure it's supported, and you will probably be OK. > > The difference between, say, a 3Com card and a generic card with a RealTek > chipset is only the price. My workplace (cable ISP) installs/supplies > several hundred Ethernet cards each week to new customers, and the average > results have borne this out. > > Justin > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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