From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 18 10:42:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from listproc.corp.loudcloud.com (olly.loudcloud.com [66.54.20.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DA5C37B40B for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 10:42:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from seanp@loudcloud.com) Received: from loudcloud.com (grover.geek.loudcloud.com [192.168.0.253]) by listproc.corp.loudcloud.com (8.11.3/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f6IHgO306684; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 10:42:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B55CB82.DAE20228@loudcloud.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 10:46:42 -0700 From: Sean Peck X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Justin C Sherrill Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Andrew C. Hornback" , gavinkenny@yahoo.co.uk Subject: Re: Recommend a NIC References: <001001c10eec$9be918e0$0e00000a@tomcat> <01071723380800.01143@roc-24-169-96-227.rochester.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have fried enough RL cards to have to say there is a Huge difference between these cards... for the average user, a $9 or $15 card may do fine, but RealTek's are not in the same class as 3Com server cards... they are more expensive no doubt, but it is not merely a matter of brand naming. Justin C Sherrill wrote: > 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 -- Garbage Collection... the bell bottoms of programming.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message