On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 10:15:30AM -0700, Andrey Petrov wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 05:00:19PM +0300, Arto Huusko wrote:
> > > On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Andrey Petrov wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > However, if you are correct, where exactly is my problem. It is clear
> > > > > that something is wrong on my i386 machine. If it's not NetBSD, there
> > > > > must be something wrong with the hardware. I'm thinking that the
> > > > > only thing it can be is the motherboard, because I've already tried
> > > > > changing all the other components (NIC, disks, IDE interface).
> > > >
> > > > You tried that but still: probably good NIC should help,
> > > 
> > > I was under the impression that 3com 3c905 should be a good NIC?
> > > 
> > 
> > I don't know actually. Is it?
> 
> I think it is. But didn't a RealTek NIC get mentioned earlier in the 
> thread? I'm not sure how they are now, but they used to be horrid.

Mostly realtek is well supported in almost any os, but the buffer 
management isn't that good (is it?). Mostly i prefer intel nic's for they 
perform 
even better than other nic's and the buffer management is cool.
Speaking about horrid nic's, what about the broadcom cards? I've got
horrendous experiences with these cards. They also support tcp offload 
engine stuff, but do not perform that well in gig networks.
I may be wrong, but it's how i experienced these cards. :-(
Bye,

Mipam.