Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 22:47:22 -0700 (MST) From: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@iMach.com> To: Will Saxon <saxonww@ufl.edu> Cc: Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: good network card (xl0 packet dropping) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002172238030.21227-100000@workhorse.iMach.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002180034310.371-100000@localhost>
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Will Saxon wrote: > Really, if you want a great netowrk card, there are only a couple of > options. I prefer Intel por/100 cards, I have 3 82557 based ones > (pro/100B) that work great; the newest 82559 based cards (pro/100+ > management) go for like $40 and are very very good. I would definately second this one. Very very good cards and are very very reliable. Run them exclusively in my client's high end boxes. One possible caveat: I had problems doing an across-the-wire installation of FreeBSD with the lastest Pro/100 card which has the management and the boot rom stuff in it. Ended up installing using a "generic" realtec pci adapter and then putting the Pro/100 in there. I can't say for sure what the problem was, but the card is running like a champ now (perhaps something weird with the install kernel?) > I think 3Com has some new cards that may raise the bar again, but given > your problems with them you may want to try something else. I will NEVER EVER use another 3com card unless I absolutely have to to make a customer happy. I hate 3com almost as much as I hate USWest, primarily because 3com's products have caused me enough grief over the years to make me not want to experience any more. I have a friend who worked at one of 3com's manufacturing plants. They were threatening to remove the test phase of the manufacturing process if they could not get their yields up to a certain point. Or, in other words, "If you can't make enough of them test good, we'll ship them all and let the customer do the test". > FWIW I have two linksys LNE-100TX cards that "work." Havent epxerienced > drops or anything bad but then again, they arent under heavy use > either. I am a BIG fan of the "generic" cards. I build picobsd based nat/firewall boxes which run in a 486. I use Davicom and/or realtec based 10mb/s cards exclusively. For PCI cards, I use cards with the realtec chipset on them. - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) KD7EHZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- iMach, Ltd., P.O. Box 5749, Helena, MT 59604 http://www.imach.com Solutions for your high-tech problems. (406)-442-6648 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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