Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:31:21 -0600 From: Eric Six <erics@sirsi.com> To: "'bind9@citystamp.com'" <bind9@citystamp.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: NIC selection advice Message-ID: <DC32C8CEB3F8D311B6B5009027DE5AD503D20797@stlmail.dra.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have always had *good* luck with the dec2114xx chip sets. I have seen them go bad though, of course I have seen alot of nice cards go bad! ;) I would go with a netgear, linksys, or even intel card. I have found that the netgear and linksys all use the dec21143 chipset,which is now manufactured by intel!? Anyways, you can pick those brands up at almost any computer store, or check out www.trendware.com. They have generic intel, winbond, and realtek cards for cheap and they also have lifetime warranties on the cards. I don't care too much for the 3com cards due to performance and compatibility issues that I have encountered previously. I am sure now that their cards are fine, but they are overpriced. Cheers, Eric - -----Original Message----- From: Matthew P. Marino [mailto:bind9@citystamp.com] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 9:24 AM To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: NIC selection advice I've got a my 4.4 server up and running on some new hardware. My nic is performing very poorly. The chipset on my current NIC is DEC21141 and I am using de0 as the device driver. When the system boots it takes a long time for the NIC to link up. I get any number of "Link Down" messages. I've tried a number of ways to force settings from 10 to 100 from half duplex to full, I've beat all the cable issues to death. I'm beginning to thing the card is bad. I have another NIC sold by Farallon that is a 3C595-TX in disguise. Based on the reading from the site I see the 3c595 listed but not as -TX. Is this a minor oversight or is the "xl" not appropriate? The other problem I seem to have is that in the sysinstall utilities, the proper drivers are not listed as choices(at least as far as the hardware compat. list is concearned). Can anyone recommend a good tutorial on forcing a driver selection for a known NIC. On my old hardware I got 4000K/sec in FTPon the LAN, now I get an intermittent 65K/sec. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>; iQA/AwUBPEbuV8bzOHaBcCrEEQKiswCdElIHKZFAxYOFCUdOqJKpWPu7xeAAnRIf OBzxhn7F26dYgZwshdmZj7oJ =+wsh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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