Subject: Re: Setting up a new server, help with hardware choices
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/08/1998 18:10:06
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 11:49:51AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> Gunnar Helliesen writes:
> > 1 x 3Com 3C900 Ethernet combo PCI
> 
> I'm not sure how well we support this card. You may be better off with 
> one of the de* type ethernet controllers.

It should be supported as well as anything else that is under the wings
of the ep driver. The thing that you should not do is get a 90xB, as
we do not support that (yet).

Performance may be an issue, perhaps people could send you performance
results of both a "de" card and an "ep" card.

- Frank