From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 9 14:14:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rgmail.regenstrief.org (rgmail.regenstrief.org [134.68.31.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CA0437B424 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 14:14:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org) Received: from aurora.regenstrief.org (rgnout.regenstrief.org [134.68.31.38]) by rgmail.regenstrief.org (8.11.0/8.8.7) with ESMTP id f39L89A13560; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 16:08:09 -0500 Message-ID: <3AD2244E.4D11ABFC@aurora.regenstrief.org> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 21:06:22 +0000 From: Gunther Schadow Organization: Regenstrief Institute for Health Care X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Clark Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who's got the cheapest 100-BT Ethernet NIC? References: <3AD21AE1.F715330E@aurora.regenstrief.org> <20010409133901.A27019@darkstar.gte.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Clark wrote: > The Intel PILA8460B (Pro 10/100B) goes for 36$ US locally. Its three > times the price of the 12$ Realtek card, but I argue that their worth > the extra upfront cost. What is it that makes it so worthwhile? I am using several of these, but they just work, and if something else works too, what's the difference then? > On a slightly related note, is anyone working on a driver for the > PILA8460C3 that uses its hardware crypto? I was supprised to see them > going for 39$ US. This *is* a good point. We purchased the crypto card for $130 lately, I'd be surprized if they are down to $39. But if they are, then it's time to get KAME/IPsec to use the crypto offloading. Where can we get the specifications from? I may very well look into fixing up the fxp dirver. -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow@regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistent Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message