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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Multiple NICs Question
Date: 3 Aug 1995 09:34:34 +0200
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Kevin Paar <kpaar@locust.ee.vt.edu> wrote:
>The question is...what kind of NICs should I be using to peacefully allow
>two of them to coexist and have stable driver support?
Any card that can be configured to a different IO address/IRQ should
be okay. The NE2000 ain't the fastest however. For ISA, the WD8013
is usually the board with the best bang per buck ratio.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)