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Date:      Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:51:59 -0600
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
To:        Jeff Hartley <jhartley@netrail.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SysKonnect and Intel gig boards
Message-ID:  <20000710175159.A28975@panzer.kdm.org>
In-Reply-To: <MBEJKBIMHAIIJNLIJGDMOEPACAAA.jhartley@netrail.net>; from jhartley@netrail.net on Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 07:26:36PM -0400
References:  <MBEJKBIMHAIIJNLIJGDMOEPACAAA.jhartley@netrail.net>

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On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 19:26:36 -0400, Jeff Hartley wrote:
> Anyone have any experience (good/bad/indifferent) with the Intel GigSX
> boards, or the SysKonnect dual-port GigSX boards, under 4.0-RELEASE?  I'm in
> need of quad-gig boxes, and I'm reluctant to stick with 3COM, based on an
> unsatisfactory failure rate in the past.  Horror stories or blessings,
> anyone?  I did notice that SysKonnect seems to be friendlier with the
> developer community than Intel (go figure).

3Com's 3c985b is really just a rebadged Alteon Tigon II board with 1MB
SRAM.  The Netgear GA620 is a rebadged Tigon II board with 512K SRAM.

FWIW, the Tigon boards work quite well.

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@kdm.org


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