Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 09:34:20 -0800 (PST) From: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, sarah@BLaCKSMITH.com Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: four-port ethernet card compatible with freebsd Message-ID: <199711141734.JAA16933@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>
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Re: quad ethernet adapters, Poul-Henning writes: > www.znyx.com A couple of notes on Znyx: Their quad 10 Mbit card (the ZX314) seems very stable, but has been discontinued (some are still available). Somebody on this list alluded a few days ago to Znyx delaying production or shipment of the quad 100 Mbit card; so I'd look into that just a little before buying. I have bought a 10-pack of the single Znyx 100 Mbit cards, and wasn't 100% happy. (As it turned out, I was using them all in 10 Mbit mode.) I had to pull several from customer sites in response to ill-defined "flakiness" and performance complaints that disappeared when I swapped in a different brand. So now I have a bunch lying around the office. One has failed here (bizarrely): a single Web page wouldn't load, and it turns out the card was consistently corrupting a single byte in a TCP packet containing part of a JPEG image (one of a sequence of FF bytes, as it happens). And a machine that works fine with Znyx's quad 10 Mbit card and 2 SMC 100 Mbit cards gets weird, random crashes and lockups if I replace the 2 SMC cards with 2 of the Znyx 100 Mb cards. All this makes me a little nervous about Znyx's control of its 100 Mb technology. I'd be interested in hearing whether or not others have had similar problems; maybe I just got unlucky. On the plus side, Znyx knows who Matt Thomas is, and is supportive of his driver writing efforts, and generally acknowledges that there is a market beyond Microsoft OS's, which is a lot more than you can say for some vendors. Jim Shankland Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc.
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