On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, der Mouse wrote:

> > Mostly realtek is well supported in almost any os, but the buffer
> > management isn't that good (is it?).
> 
> Quoting from
> /* $NetBSD: if_rl.c,v 1.6 2000/02/02 17:09:38 thorpej Exp $ */
> (which I believe has moved to some other name in -current, but my
> machine with a -current source tree is sick right now):

Now it's here:
src/sys/dev/ic/rtl81x9.c
($NetBSD: rtl81x9.c,v 1.46 2004/05/28 15:21:32 toshii Exp $)

The newer rtl cards support even tcp offloading engine stuff (oh dear).
The thing which suprises me is that not many like realtek stuff 
(understandable), but little ppl seem to have problems with broadcom cards 
with which i mostly have trouble. Gig performance with their gig cards is 
an illusion. Media speeds means trouble as well: put such a card hard on 
100mb/full duplex and the switch (cisco for example) port as well on these 
settings and speed will be very low, put both ends in auto mode and the 
speed increases drastically. The other way around used to be true for some 
3com cards. 
Bye,

Mipam.