From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 12 11:17:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from workhorse.iMach.com (workhorse.iMach.com [206.127.77.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A9B7151DB for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:17:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from forrestc@workhorse.iMach.com) Received: from localhost (forrestc@localhost) by workhorse.iMach.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA29663; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 12:16:16 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 12:16:15 -0600 (MDT) From: "Forrest W. Christian" To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" Cc: Mike Pontillo , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NICs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > > That said, the Intel EtherExpress family seem to work EXTREMELY well and > > extremely good. I put them in all my customer's "high-end" freebsd boxes > > and in my customer's high-end servers. > > Should have been more explicit, this was for a firewall/VPN box. > Stability of the Win9X boxes is not as much an issue, and the vendors tend > to test better for that environment anyway. Actually, I build firewall boxes here based on FreeBSD-STABLE - And thats where the cheap cards go. :) - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) KD7EHZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- iMach, Ltd., P.O. Box 5749, Helena, MT 59604 http://www.imach.com Solutions for your high-tech problems. (406)-442-6648 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message