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From: "David B. Aas" <dave@ciminot.com>
To: "'Andriss'" <andriss@andriss.com>
Cc: <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: RE: 100mbit full-duplex capable card
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 20:01:33 -0500
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I like the 3com 905bTX card. It works great with FreeBSD. I have put
together several servers with dual cards in them, and had no problems with
setup or operation. I love them!

Dave Aas
dave@ciminot.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Andriss
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 5:42 PM
> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: 100mbit full-duplex capable card
>
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> Hello,
>
> Can someone recommend me a good 100mb full-duplex capable
> ethernet card?
>
> I was thinking of either the fxp0 driver for the Intel etherexpress
> (or whatever it was called) or the xl0 driver for 3Com's 905btx.
>
> I also have a de0 ?Kingston? KNE100tx card which I don't like very
> much because it acts weird under heavy load (and that was just
> 10mbits not even full-duplex) and displays verbose error messages,
> and sometimes doesn't come back after cable errors (for instance
> if I pull the plug on it) making me altogether doubtful that it will
> work well under the 100mbit conditions.
>
> The machine in question is running FreeBSD 3.2 on i386 architecture
> and is SCSI based (if it matters)
>
> I would appreciate if you can give me some comments or maybe links
> and other info about the 100 mbit full-duplex cards.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Andriss
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