[rescue] FDDI card

nick at snowman.net nick at snowman.net
Sat Feb 23 16:40:27 CST 2002


Ehh, I've had amazingly good luck with the 3c9* cards.  I've installed
nearly 1000 now, had amazingly few failures (3), and those three I shipped
back to 3com and got brand new ones very quickly.  I've run them on many
different systems, platforms and oses, though oddly enough not *bsd.
	Nick

On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On February 23, Big Endian wrote:
> > >   Any of the DEC Tulip-based cards will kick the shit out of pretty much
> > >anything else, from what I've seen.
> > 
> > I've had *MUCH* higher quality (auto-neg works, no packet loss,etc) 
> > from 3com cards than from tulip based ones under linux/Freebsd.  The 
> > tulips were both clone and non clone.
> 
>   Wow, that goes against *everything* I've ever heard, (and more
> importantly, *experienced*) since the Tulip cards came out.
> Interesting.
> 
>        -Dave
> 
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> Dave McGuire
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