Hi Gordon, > Should I look to dump my mobos with Realtek NICs and switch to other > NICs (would Intel NICs be OK ?)
Look in the archives, Nick's advice seems as current as in 2001. The same seems to hold true for RT's gigabit NICs, but I haven't used those myself. I've been replacing both my RealTek and 3com (3c90x, yuck) NICs with either Linksys EG1032 (new versions seem to be unsupported; older ones are sk-based) and lately ZyXEL GN760-T (vge; pvalchev added support last year) on all my systems, not only those running OpenBSD. The ZyXEL is a cheap bastard. I run i386 and amd64 exclusively, btw. I have one onboard Intel adaptor on an Intel Xeon serverboard. It hasn't been in operation long enough for me to say anything useful yet. Hasn't crashed. ;-) (em0 at pci7 dev 4 function 0 "Intel PRO/1000MT (82541EI)" rev 0x05: irq 10, address: 00:04:23:b8:c5:02) HTH and good luck... Nico
