From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jul 10 16:52:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE15837B5C1 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:52:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA28995; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:51:59 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:51:59 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Jeff Hartley Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SysKonnect and Intel gig boards Message-ID: <20000710175159.A28975@panzer.kdm.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from jhartley@netrail.net on Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 07:26:36PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message