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Date:      Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:07:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>
To:        "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@iMach.com>
Cc:        Mike Pontillo <mike_p@revenge.pylos.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NICs
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910121102550.17801-100000@harlie.bfd.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991012113001.29012B-100000@workhorse.iMach.com>

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On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Forrest W. Christian wrote:

> That said, the Intel EtherExpress family seem to work EXTREMELY well and
> extremely good.  I put them in all my customer's "high-end" freebsd boxes
> and in my customer's high-end servers.

Should have been more explicit, this was for a firewall/VPN box.
Stability of the Win9X boxes is not as much an issue, and the vendors tend
to test better for that environment anyway.

Then again, my home network is switched 100BaseT, with all EtherExpressPro
cards.  I thought it was worth the $46 each for the cards.



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