From owner-freebsd-net Wed Oct 6 11:27:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from smyk.apk.net (smyk.apk.net [207.54.158.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8026214D5B for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 11:26:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuart@apk.net) Received: from junior.apk.net (stuart@junior.apk.net [207.54.158.20]) by smyk.apk.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/apk.990812+rchk1.22+bspm1.13.1.5) with ESMTP id OAA12235; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 14:15:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (stuart@localhost) by junior.apk.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA29329; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 14:15:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 14:15:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Stuart Krivis To: Hugh LaMaster Cc: "FreeBSD-Net (FreeBSD.Org)" Subject: Re: Tulip drivers for BSD. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Hugh LaMaster wrote: > NICs have stopped marking on the packages what chipset > they use, and some have switched chipsets within the > same product line. At this point, I have no idea how > to tell which current product lines use the Tulip chipset. > Is anyone keeping a current list? Is the Tulip chipset > still in production/widespread use? I have several recent Kingston KNE100 cards with an Intel version of the Tulip. It seems to work quite well. > > What are FreeBSD'ers recommending these days wrt multicast > and CPU efficiency (and, which is currently supported)? I hear a lot about the Intel Pro100 cards. In fact, people seem to like them over the Tulip cards. I keep wondering whatever happened to 3Com cards. They used to be the best choice because they worked with everything. -- Stuart Krivis stuart@krivis.com Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message