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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!pacbell.com!ico.net!news.zeitgeist.net!lind.mojones.com!seibel From: Peter Seibel <seibel@mojones.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Ethernet Card Recommendations? (was: Re: Linux network code vs. FreeBSD) Date: 1 Dec 1995 23:20:41 GMT Organization: Mother Jones Interactive Lines: 16 Distribution: world Message-ID: <49o2k9$4fi@kadath.zeitgeist.net> References: <492rq6$r6g@uriah.heep.sax.de> <49k85b$q51@vanbc.wimsey.com> <49jqhr$ili@uriah.heep.sax.de> <49n0ma$38v@hudson.lm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lind.mojones.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Nuntius 2.0.4_68K X-XXMessage-ID: <ACE4D0BA28017687@lind.mojones.com> X-XXDate: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 23:33:14 GMT In article <49n0ma$38v@hudson.lm.com> Peter Berger, peterb@psc.edu writes: >Agreed. The 3c509 is one of the best ISA ethernet cards available, >and shines under BSDI. I have one in my FreeBSD box, but haven't hooked >it up to a LAN yet :-}. >What he probably meant to say was "FreeBSD's 3c509 driver is buggy." >(according to the release notes) So given that, can anyone recommend an ethernet card to go in the Pentium I'm about to buy and use as a web server, running FreeBSD. -Peter -- Peter Seibel seibel@mojones.com Writer/Perl Hacker 510-482-9105