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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ou.edu!news.nodak.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!netnews.nwnet.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!newsgate.duke.edu!solaris.cc.vt.edu!csugrad.cs.vt.edu!csugrad.cs.vt.edu!not-for-mail From: jaitken@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jeff Aitken) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: low-cost ethernet recomendations? Date: 10 Jan 1997 14:29:04 -0500 Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5b65a0$ok5@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> References: <7renfxfn6i.fsf@sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: csugrad.cs.vt.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33933 Tim Singletary (tsingle@sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov) wrote: : Will any of the low cost ($30 or so) ethernet cards work with FreeBSD? : How bad is their performance? I'll second J'oerg's recommendation for an SMC 8013. I've got three of these in use with both FreeBSD and Windows NT machines, and they're great. Seems to me I ran some very informal benchmarks awhile back and was able to converse between two machines on a very lightly loaded ethernet at a respectable fraction of line speed, so their performance isn't all that bad. Another (potentially attractive) feature is that they make a combo version (the 8013EWC maybe? Or EWP??) that has all three types of connector (TP, BNC, and AUI) so you can continue to use the cards for years, no matter what sort of network you need to plug into. On the other hand, I have no idea what these things cost nowadays, so I can't tell you if they're in the $30 range or not. -- Jeff Aitken jaitken@dimension.net