Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 14:46:22 +0200 From: "Soren S. Jorvang" <none@soren--t.dk.lh.bsd-dk.dk> To: bsd-dk@hotel.prosa.dk Subject: Re: FreeBSD og Ethernet kort
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 02:41:28PM +0200, Philippe Regnauld wrote:
> Anton Berezin writes:
> > "Morten Jørgensen" <none@mojo--get2net.dk.lh.bsd-dk.dk> writes:
> >
> > > Hvad er jeres bud på et godt ethernet netkort til FreeBSD
> > > (pt. 2.2.6)?
> >
> > > Det er ikke så vigtigt for mig om det er 10 Mbit eller 100 Mbit,
> > > blot det er et PCI / busmaster kort.
> >
> > Just to add one more card to the list of suggestions:
> >
> > fxp - Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B ethernet
> >
> > Why?
>
> Because it's good ? :-)
>
> My Top-5 list:
>
> de0 (DEC)
> fxp0 (Intel)
For *BSD, I'd reverse the order of these two. There are lots and lots
of variously incompatible clones of the Digital chips, so just buying
a "DEC-based" card cannot be relied upon.
The *BSD fxp driver, on the other hand, is more efficient than the de
one and the 82557 has fewer alignement restrictions than the 2114?,
so it can get away with fewer copies. Also, the 8255[789] series
maintains very good backwards compatibility, and there are no clones.
-- Soren
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