Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 23:38:08 -0400 From: Justin C Sherrill <justin@shiningsilence.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net>, <gavinkenny@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: Re: Recommend a NIC Message-ID: <01071723380800.01143@roc-24-169-96-227.rochester.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <001001c10eec$9be918e0$0e00000a@tomcat> References: <001001c10eec$9be918e0$0e00000a@tomcat>
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On Tuesday 17 July 2001 14:16, you wrote: > You DIDN'T just say that... DID you?!? > > *falls over laughing* > > The difference between a 3Com and a RealTek is only the price? *shakes > his head and makes a note not to get a cable modem...* NICs come into our warehouse in sheets; 3Com cards cost us 3 times as much and invariably had some duds on every allotment. RealTek didn't when we ordered from them. I was using RealTek vs. 3Com because I've seen people attach value judgements to those brand names when overall, the brand name only made a difference in price. If you're going to make a recommendation, it'd be nice to have some evidence other than anecdotal. My personal best experience with network cards in FreeBSD came from Intel EtherExpress chipsets in two different machines. That's not a lot to judge from, of course. I've also had good luck with 3Com 9xx series cards, which use a different driver (xl instead of ep) from the troublesome ones Gavin mentioned. I unfortunately haven't experienced and don't know of a fix for the ep flakiness... That might be a question for the freebsd-hardware list. Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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