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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.cccd.edu!usenet From: mpeer@cccd.edu (Michael S. Peer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 3Com 3C509B Date: 4 Mar 1996 05:54:27 GMT Organization: Golden West College Lines: 38 Message-ID: <4he0ij$j11@spock.dis.cccd.edu> References: <3138EB76.41C67EA6@mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mpeer.csc.gwc.cccd.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 In article <3138EB76.41C67EA6@mindspring.com>, rlb@mindspring.com says... > >Has anyone sucessfuly installed the new 3Com 3C509B Ehterlink >III on FreeBSD 2.1? >Thank's in advance. > >Ron Yeah, it works. But I have to tell my gut feeling is that it is not as good as a good ne2000 card in the same box. My company bought 200 of them, and we can't really use them in except in a small number of machines. So I got to play with them. Read the LINT kernel description, it reports its buggy. Comments as a router: I could not get two of them to live in a machine. Using an ep0 and ed0 or ed1 was OK, ( note I used non-conflicting settings). For no apparent reason I recieved a message from ep0, it still worked, though, sorry, for the life of me I can't remember the text. comments as host: I have one of the cards in 90MHz pentium, and it has been cooking along, with no more errors on our network than other cards. It is slower than ne2000 card, but not that I could really notice on this machine. I haven't heavily load this machine, and I am worried about it. comments about BSDI: I am investigating commercial version, and they apparently like the card. I do not have a copy, so I have not played with card and O.S. Hope this helps, this is only my opinion, and experiences, your mileage may vary.