That's a real myth about Realtek :0)
We're using them on all our FreeBSD machines for over 5 years without any problems. Driver is working fine.
Speed and reliability is OK. So I for one can even offer to choose them instead of 3COM as in Russia you can easily get 2 from the 3 3COM cards that is not 3COM indeed :0) Not so for cheap Realteks :0)
Good luck
David Gilbert wrote:
"Kirill" == Kirill Ponomarew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kirill> Hi, On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:46:43AM -0300, Pablo Morales Kirill> wrote:
Someone said that the realtek 8029 and 8139 ethernet cards are the worst cards ever made. My boss is planning to make a great buy of this cards for a communication project ( the reasons is obius, the cost of this cards ) I'm trying to persuade him to by 3com ethernet cards, but I need technical information to demostrate him that it's not a good inversion to buy those kind of cards.
Can someone give a good explanation of that or at least where can I
find information about it?
Kirill> please read comments in /usr/src/sys/pci/if_rl.c
It's worth noting that there's a scale to all this. The driver comments imply that the card will push 100Mb if you have enough power in the CPU ... defined as 400Mhz. Given the price of this card ... and the fact that less-than-400Mhz CPU's are rather rare, and that this is only an issue for high bandwidth applications ... the rl cards might fit for you.
We use them extensively in workstations... even diskless. The reason being that with modern processors, they perform adequately ... and although they take up extra CPU ... CPUs are rather under-utilized resources in most workstations.
Dave.
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