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[ ... ] It would be nice if somewhere there was some statement of a "fact" that NIC ____ is known to work well with FreeBSD. I'm aware of all of the FUD out there, about people beating their chests saying how wonderful NIC-A is or NIC-B is, and I've tried 'em all and had problems with each and every one of them so far. Surely someone out there must use FreeBSD in an environment where the "network is the bottleneck"^2 - right?....
I have never had a problem with a Intel fxp0 NIC. My company probably has used over fifty of them.
I have never had a problem with the 3com 9xx xl0 NICs. About ten of those are in proximity to me over the years.
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DEC-branded 21x4x Tulip cards have also been good, but I've had three out of 4 Asante cards using a PNIC Tulip lookalike have failed, and I'm dubious about the last one. Avoid Tulip clones.
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I've not had problems with a sis0 (NatSemi DP83815), but not enough of them to generalize. I've seen mild problems with the vr0 (VIA chipsets) & Broadcom chips, and the Realtek and NE2000 clones that ISPs give to their customers for free may not be worth even that much.
-- -Chuck
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