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. Can't say the
same about 3Com 9xx (old and new). YMMV
Jeff Mountin - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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