From owner-freebsd-net Tue Sep 3 20:24:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82ECF37B401 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:24:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.sentex.ca (smtp2.sentex.ca [199.212.134.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E64D143E3B for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:24:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from house (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp2.sentex.ca (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g843O1eN035946; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 23:24:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fxp and 802.3 flow control Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 23:24:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20020903123508.A95635@panzer.kdm.org> <20020903114028.B1595@iguana.icir.org> <20020903125503.A95848@panzer.kdm.org> <20020903124301.A1859@iguana.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <20020903124301.A1859@iguana.icir.org> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:43:02 -0700, in sentex.lists.freebsd.net you wrote: >On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 12:55:03PM -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: >... >> It would be nice if there were actually detailed docs available for = those >> boards that didn't require an NDA. > >i actually think we should just stop recommend using that card. > >Apart from the unavailable docs which is very annoying in itself, >the fxp card (not the driver) also has other performance >problems and is quite a bit more expensive than other similar >or better performing cards. What would you reccomend in terms of better performing cards that also = have VLAN support ? ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message