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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!insync!news.hal-pc.org!usenet From: jhupp@black.gensys.com (Jeff Hupp) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 3Com 3C509B Date: 6 Mar 1996 07:30:32 GMT Organization: Houston Area League of PC Users Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4hjeup$pvi@news.hal-pc.org> References: <3138EB76.41C67EA6@mindspring.com> <4he0ij$j11@spock.dis.cccd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: black.gensys.com X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 In article <4he0ij$j11@spock.dis.cccd.edu>, mpeer@cccd.edu (Michael S. Peer) writes: >In article <3138EB76.41C67EA6@mindspring.com>, rlb@mindspring.com >says... >> >>Has anyone sucessfuly installed the new 3Com 3C509B Ehterlink >>III on FreeBSD 2.1? >>Thank's in advance. >> >>Ron > >Yeah, it works. > >But I have to tell my gut feeling is that it is not as good as a good >ne2000 card in the same box. My company bought 200 of them, and we >can't really use them in except in a small number of machines. So I >got to play with them. > Don't trust your gut. I have four of them running in one box, no problems, no errors, and I would be looking at 120 days uptime if the power had not been removed from the machine (under duress) twice in that period. By the way, the box came right back up, no problems, when power was reapplied. It's acting as a router between three subnets and the internet. I also have a couple running in servers, no problems. -- X, windows done right... Jeff Hupp <Jhupp@gensys.com> <http://gensys.com> PGP Public Key available at http://gensys.com or on the key servers