Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 13:45:02 +0100 From: Dean Strik <dean@dragon.stack.nl> To: Marcel Prisi <marcel-lists@virtua.ch> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What NIC to choose ? Message-ID: <20011111124502.GA10461@dragon.stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <019a01c16629$4b151650$8d01a8c0@gastroleader.com> References: <019a01c16629$4b151650$8d01a8c0@gastroleader.com>
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Marcel Prisi wrote: > Hi all ! > > After having loads of trouble with Intel Etherexpress, Netgear, and others > NIC, what card REALLY work on FreeBSD ? This is a rather late reply, but I'd like to share a bit about a problem we had with Intel EtherExpress Pro 100. We had a few connected to a Cisco Fasthub. We found that since bridging was enabled on one of these boxen, all computers with the intel cards completely 'netdied' after seemingly arbitrary periods (days). Computers with NICs from 3com or other manufacturers were not affected. Later problems also occurred in the same configuration (connected to a cisco hub). The bridging machine (FreeBSD) also is an IPv6 router, and IPv6 connections through the box went fine.. except to/from boxen with the Intel cards. All the boxen with these intel cards run FreeBSD-STABLE, so it's hard to say if this problem only occurs with FreeBSD. -- Dean C. Strik Eindhoven University of Technology dean@stack.nl | dean@ipnet6.org | http://www.ipnet6.org/ "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." -- Wolfgang Pauli To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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