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From: Peter Seibel <seibel@mojones.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Ethernet Card Recommendations? (was: Re: Linux network code vs. FreeBSD)
Date: 1 Dec 1995 23:20:41 GMT
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In article <49n0ma$38v@hudson.lm.com> Peter Berger, peterb@psc.edu writes:
>Agreed.  The 3c509 is one of the best ISA ethernet cards available,
>and shines under BSDI.  I have one in my FreeBSD box, but haven't hooked
>it up to a LAN yet :-}.
>What he probably meant to say was "FreeBSD's 3c509 driver is buggy."
>(according to the release notes)

So given that, can anyone recommend an ethernet card to go in the Pentium I'm
about to buy and use as a web server, running FreeBSD.

-Peter

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