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To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers)
Subject: Re: What choice of 100 mbps Ethernet boards? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jan 96 11:44:55 +0100."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 07:58:04 -0800
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>I'm still working on the Installation book (anybody who's interested,
>*please* review!), and it occurred to me that there's little direction
>in choosing 100 mbps network boards.  Can anybody suggest something
>that works well?

   The DEC DC21140 based cards (if_de.c) work well. I've personally been
using the SMC 9332 cards for about 8 months. Also supported as of a few weeks
ago is the Intel EtherExpress Pro/100 (via if_fxp.c).

-DG