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From: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: low-cost ethernet recomendations?
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 08:42:59 -0800
Organization: (soon to be) Highperformance.net
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Mind you that I am not a power user. Here is what I have found.
I use a LINKSYS ether 16 10baseT card. It works like gangbusters with
freebsd and w95. It is software configurable under DOS. So you may have
to configure it in DOS, write everything down and then update your
config in FreeBSD. As far as transfer performance goes 10 mbps is 10
mbps IMO. This card cost me 40 bucks about a year ago.
> Will any of the low cost ($30 or so) ethernet cards work with FreeBSD?
> How bad is their performance?
>
> I assume 10Base-2 works out cheaper for a small enough network (is
> this true?). Still, I'd rather go with twisted-pair -- any
> recomendations for low-cost 10Base-T hubs? Anything I should hold my
> nose and stay away from???
--
Thank you,
Wannabe Sysadmin
Jason Wells
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