On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 12:50:24PM -0600, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote:
> At 11:08 PM 2/17/00 -0800, Jorge Aldana wrote:
> >Before you go out and buy any card make sure the network you're plugging
> >it into is going to work with it. Huh, you say. Well we had all Intel
> >Pro/100's working just fine (although we had to muck with ifconfig as
> >follows for 100BT ifconfig_fxp0="inet xx.xx.xx.xx netmask
> >255.255.255.0 media 100baseTX), then we bought a new switch and the Intel
> >cards went bonkers and caused several problems. Needless to say when we
> >switch to 3Com all was fine, now we burn those Intel's. Not that Intel
> >makes a bad card or 3Com is better, they just happen to work so 3Com it
> is. So
> >don't just look at the card, the network you're plugging it in to matters
> >as well, switch, hub, bla bla bla...
>
> What switch? And why set the media? "Bonkers" is a bit vague.
>
> The Intel autosenses speed/duplex well with Intel, 3Com, and Cisco switches
> from my dealings with and does so with FBSD or Win 9x/NT.
Add HP Procurve switches to that list, which are really great value.
-- Clifton
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