From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 1 14:45:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1D3616BD4E for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 14:45:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: from web33312.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web33312.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A0CA43D6B for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 14:45:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 41123 invoked by uid 60001); 1 Jun 2006 14:45:09 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=rIsUYdDzcwe+Bwy16G9ycGL7RvQg45z68TGmxUgLDwXMeTFbeVqDJ9twupoQ61MupYRdEnqNdI5pCvJxu++5RXC+vCe7RpQIWC53np79vsOfZkDp/3RnuAKOS0vXV3o6mpMOaRyBnrXzpio7sKoQ0aMLlepN/g6BuujPdSSL28o= ; Message-ID: <20060601144509.41121.qmail@web33312.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [65.34.182.15] by web33312.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 07:45:09 PDT Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 07:45:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Danial Thom To: Chuck Swiger In-Reply-To: <447EF7A3.7040704@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Recommendation for 1000BASE-SX card? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: danial_thom@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:45:21 -0000 --- Chuck Swiger wrote: > Danial Thom wrote: > > Also keep in mind that the bge driver is a > piece > > of crap; driver quality is a much more > telling > > factor in these free OS's than the card in > many > > cases. The EM and FXP are the only drivers > worth > > anything (mainly because neither were written > by > > mass-driver mill man Bill Paul). > > No doubt you've written a truly remarkable > replacement driver which your email > is too small to contain. Unlike Fermat, > however, you've presumably hidden the > proof under the bridge where only trolls may > go. > > I'm tempted to set a Followup-to: header to > -chat or maybe /dev/null... What exactly is wrong with all of you people anyway? Clearly there are drivers that are well supported and drivers that aren't. There are people out there trying to run their businesses and you seem to want to pretend that everything is just peachy and that everything can be tweaked and tuned a bit to be usable. The poor guy goes out and buys a big honking machine with dual opterons (probably) and he's getting half of the performance out of the box because he's using an ethernet controller thats a piece of crap, or a driver thats a piece of crap, or maybe both. If you're going to call people who tell the truth about things trolls, so be it, but all you're doing is showing your own delusional view of the world, or your own stupidity as an engineer, if you just think that everything works so damn well. DT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com