Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:29:35 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> To: Marcel Prisi <marcel-lists@virtua.ch> Cc: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: What NIC to choose ? Message-ID: <20011106102212.B42904-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <019a01c16629$4b151650$8d01a8c0@gastroleader.com>
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On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Marcel Prisi wrote: >Hi all ! > >After having loads of trouble with Intel Etherexpress, Netgear, and others >NIC, what card REALLY work on FreeBSD ? I really like the Intel EtherExpress cards using the fxp driver and have had great success with them. Then again, every single one I have OTOH is builtin to the motherboard, so I've never bought one standalone. All of the server hardware I buy has them builtin. As for cheap NICs to put in desktop machines, I _really_ like my Accton EN1207D-TX NICs. They use the rl driver and contain the MPX5038 chip. It's a RealTek 8129/8139 workalike that in my experience is much more reliable than the original RealTek chip. I see close to full wire speed on them. I also have had very bad luck with tulip clones. Either get an honest-to-Bob tulip card or stay the hell away from them. Yes, some people use them with success, but I have seen tulip clones deployed in beowulf compute nodes which died at a rate of one NIC per 50 machines per month. Since that purchasing mistake (which occured before my arrival) only true Intel eepros are allowed in compute nodes. -- "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a law against it by that time." -- /usr/games/fortune, 07/30/2001 Brandon D. Valentine <bandix at looksharp.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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