Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:47:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NICs Message-ID: <200210100847.g9A8lwL8039461@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <003e01c26fa6$9ee9c550$0e82020a@dolphin>
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Nuno Pimenta <npimenta@ipn.pt> wrote: > I need to find the best Fast Ethernet and ISDN PCI cards for FreeBSD. > Can you help me making the decisions? If the price is not important, get an intel EtherExpress/100 fast ethernet card. They're well supported and perform very well under FreeBSD. If the price is _completely_ unimportant, buy one of the well-supported gigabit ethernet cards, such as one based on Tigon-II or Broadcom chips. They support things like TCP checksumming, VLAN demuxing etc. in hardware, even if you use them "only" at 100 MBit/s. (However, be careful, some gigabit ethernet cards don't support 10 or 100 MBit/s any- more. Check the specs before buying.) On the other hand, if it's for a desktop machine, you can as well buy a cheap card, such as a Realtek-based one. (I know, Realtek has a bad reputation, and it has somewhat more overhead if you have a slow CPU, but you usually won't notice when using standard desktop applications. I've seen Realteks as low as 5 Euro, while an EtherExpress is more like 50 Euro.) YMMV. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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