Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 18:40:06 +0930 From: Leigh Hart <hart@at.dotat.com> To: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Decent network cards for 100Mbit? Message-ID: <199905030910.SAA17770@at.dotat.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 May 1999 16:41:55 %2B0800." <199905030841.QAA25568@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com>
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Hi Steve, What a shocking email address you have there *chortle* sorry, couldn't resist. Stephen Hocking-Senior <shocking@prth.pgs.com> wrote: > > Having discovered that the Realtek chipset is a > flatulent sack of pus, Um, what gives you that idea? I've used literally dozens of them throughout my network on both router based bsd boxen as well as busy servers (the 10Mb variety). > I'm wondering what results people have had with other PCI > network cards, and what order of preference they'd put > them in. I've never had a problem with any PCI based NIC, but in order of preference for 10Mb I prefer RealTek 8029 PCI, for 100Mb I prefer Intel Pro 10/100B+. Cheers Leigh -- | "By the time they had diminished | Leigh Hart, <hart@dotat.com> | | from 50 to 8, the other dwarves | CCNA - http://www.cisco.com/ | | began to suspect 'Hungry' ..." | GPO Box 487 Adelaide SA 5001 | | -- Gary Larson, "The Far Side" | http://www.dotat.com/hart/ | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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