From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 21 20:57:28 2003 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 6DC3737B401 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:57:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from c18070.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au (c18070.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au [210.49.78.171]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E1E4B43FAF for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:57:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ajmawer@optusnet.com.au) Received: (qmail 7849 invoked from network); 22 Feb 2003 04:57:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO optusnet.com.au) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 22 Feb 2003 04:57:24 -0000 Message-ID: <3E570339.40409@optusnet.com.au> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 15:57:29 +1100 From: Antony Mawer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030218 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Best Gigabit NIC for FreeBSD? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I've recently been setting up a server with a D-Link DGE-500T gigabit ethernet card, that needs to connect to a Novell Netware 4.11 server over IPX. Using the nge driver, it came up on the network fine using TCP/IP, but had issues trying to find the Netware server. A 'tcpdump not ip' showed there were definately IPX traffic/SAP broadcasts being picked up by the card, but it refused to get up and running Changing the card over for a 100mbit one using the vr driver picked the Netware server up without a problem. Has anyone had any experience with gigabit cards running IPX under FreeBSD -- or just in general? We're currently investigating purchasing a different card to try (we were thinking probably Intel - what's supported best under FBSD?). The machine in question is running 4.7-RELEASE-p2. Thanks in advance, Antony PS. Please CC me in any replies, as I'm not subscribed to the list! :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message