Re: FreeBSD og Ethernet kort

From: Philippe Regnauld (none@regnauld--deepo.prosa.dk.lh.bsd-dk.dk)
Date: Mon 12 Apr 1999 - 14:57:06 CEST

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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 14:57:06 +0200
From: Philippe Regnauld <none@regnauld--deepo.prosa.dk.lh.bsd-dk.dk>
To: bsd-dk@hotel.prosa.dk
Subject: Re: FreeBSD og Ethernet kort

Soren S. Jorvang writes:
> >
> > 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.

Okay -- make that: DEC-21140 (10/100) or DEC-21040 (10Mbps)

> 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.

Nice to know.

> Also, the 8255[789] series
> maintains very good backwards compatibility, and there are no clones.

Ok.

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