Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 12:30:27 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mark J. Taylor" <mtaylor@cybernet.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com> Subject: RE: Decent network cards for 100Mbit? Message-ID: <XFMail.990503123027.mtaylor@cybernet.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990503184550.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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The Tulip-based cards are flatulent sacks of pus as well. There are multicast problem with them. I'm sure Bill Paul can give us a few words about these cards... Ever try to do multicast under Windows/NT with a Tulip-based card? It does not work, even with the latest NT and DEC drivers. We use the Intel EEPro 10/100 here, but we don't really use them in 100MB mode very often. DG wrote the driver, and he is one of the "special people" that I can trust to write a good driver. ;) (doesn't wcarchive have a EEPro 10/100?) --- Mark J. Taylor Networking Research Cybernet Systems mtaylor@cybernet.com 727 Airport Blvd. PHONE (734) 668-2567 Ann Arbor, MI 48108 FAX (734) 668-8780 http://www.cybernet.com/ http://www.netmax.com/ On 03-May-99 Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 03-May-99 Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: >> Having discovered that the Realtek chipset is a flatulent sack of pus, I'm >> wondering what results people have had with other PCI network cards, and >> what >> order of preference they'd put them in. > > DEC Tulip cards are nice.. I have noticed that when you change media they get > confused (you have to flush the arp table and generally kick it a bit) but they > seem quite nice. > > Intel Etherexpress pro 10/100's are probably better but I've only used one for > a short while :) > > --- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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