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> 3Com 3c509 NICs are unreliable. Some work, others don't. They are also
> known to be temperamental, in that the same card may perform well in
> one computer but poorly in another. Add to that the fact that the
> driver is buggy (search the mailing list archives!), and what you get
> is a hardware/software combination I cannot in good faith recommend to
> anyone. If you need something cheap, go for an SMC or Kingston based
> NE2000 compatible ISA card. You'll probably get it cheaper than the
> 3c509, and it will work better (and be pnp-configurable to boot).

	Hmmmm.... I've deployed well over 3 dozen of the 3c509 in its
various versions, with about a third on FreeBSD systems and I haven't
seem the problems you are describing.
	They must work at some level because I know several universities
that have used them exclusively, which means probably 100's of units
per site.


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