From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Sep 13 14:53:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (pau-amma.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A101515644 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 14:53:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id OAA76049; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 14:53:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 14:53:28 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199909132153.OAA76049@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, richard@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk Subject: Re: Network Interface Card In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >From: "Richard Morte" >Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 20:37:53 +0100 >I have just installed FreeBSD3.1 with Apache web server and now want to >network the machine to a number of Win98 machines using Samba. Before I rush >out and buy NICs and a hub can anyone recommend a good supported 100Mb >network card/system? >... >Alternative suggestions welcome before I part with the money. For the home NAT/firewall, I picked up a couple of NetGear cards ("de" driver). Although I haven't tried runing them at 100 Mb/s -- the other devices there tend toward older Sun equipment, and a Livingston PM2 -- they work fine at 10 Mb/s. And the Kingston card ("pn" driver) that Pac*Bell supplied for the DSL connection likewise seems to work well, but the probability that I'd strain the card even at 10 Mb/s with a DSL connection is a bit of a stretch. I paid $20 (US) each for the NetGear cards; the Kingston was part of the provided equipment with the Pac*Bell term service agreement (1 year, I think), no extra charge. Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com UNIX System Administrator voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (888) 347-0197 FAX: (650) 372-5915 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message