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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!shlnews!ottnews!pc058!gbuchanan From: gbuchanan@shl.com (Gardner Buchanan) Subject: Best/Best Supported Ethernet NIC for FreeBSD 2.x X-Nntp-Posting-Host: 192.75.59.28 Message-ID: <gbuchanan.6.0023FA05@shl.com> Lines: 29 Sender: usenet@ottnews.shl.com (News Administrator) Organization: SHL Systemhouse Ottawa branch X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B] Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 22:50:17 GMT Hello. I'm building a weird kind of bridge/router out of a FreeBSD box, currently using 3Com 3C509's on an ISA bus. This has gotten me started and will support debugging allright. I have had some of the oft reported plug&pray problems with these cards and have come to understand that the ep driver for the 3C509 is not alltogether the best possible. My question is therefore, what *is* (or are) the best quality ethernet driver(s) in 2.x (2.05 currently) and what are the highest performance cards which are well supported. It looks like I'll want high-end PCI cards. In my application I can't currently make use of the 100MB/s since the traffic I'm switching is on a 10MBs network, but features like large on-card FIFOs and high quality analogue designs are wanted. Am I likely to find that the DEC based 100Mbs cards will yeild 10Mbs performance superior to 10MBs only designs? Any thoughts or recommendations? Thanks --- Gardner Buchanan SHL Systemhouse Inc. Ottawa Branch (613) 236-9734