From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 18 10:51:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peak.mountin.net (peak.mountin.net [207.227.119.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E060D37B9A1 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 10:51:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by peak.mountin.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id MAA01785; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 12:51:39 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: from dial-99.max1.wa.cyberlynk.net(207.227.118.99) by peak.mountin.net via smap (V1.3) id sma001759; Fri Feb 18 12:51:05 2000 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.20000218125024.009efd00@207.227.119.2> X-Sender: jeff-ml@207.227.119.2 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 12:50:24 -0600 To: Jorge Aldana From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: good network card (xl0 packet dropping) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:08 PM 2/17/00 -0800, Jorge Aldana wrote: >Before you go out and buy any card make sure the network you're plugging >it into is going to work with it. Huh, you say. Well we had all Intel >Pro/100's working just fine (although we had to muck with ifconfig as >follows for 100BT ifconfig_fxp0="inet xx.xx.xx.xx netmask >255.255.255.0 media 100baseTX), then we bought a new switch and the Intel >cards went bonkers and caused several problems. Needless to say when we >switch to 3Com all was fine, now we burn those Intel's. Not that Intel >makes a bad card or 3Com is better, they just happen to work so 3Com it is. So >don't just look at the card, the network you're plugging it in to matters >as well, switch, hub, bla bla bla... What switch? And why set the media? "Bonkers" is a bit vague. The Intel autosenses speed/duplex well with Intel, 3Com, and Cisco switches from my dealings with and does so with FBSD or Win 9x/NT. Can't say the same about 3Com 9xx (old and new). YMMV Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message