On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Joseph L. Casale <jcas...@activenetwerx.com> wrote: >>Anybody else? >>I don't have any experience with Marvell other than in my Laptop. >>I assume they are better than Realtek... > > I have a myriad of Intel, Broadcom, 1 marvell now and several realtek > nics on various equipment I manage. Although the realtek's aren't performers > like the Broadcoms or Intels and some need additional drivers in some distro's > they all work. > > I have seen every preposterous event with a Yukon like providing bad mac > address during pxe boot, poor performance and some needed some absolutely > pedantic methods to configure parameters like Yukon's under Solaris. > > I'd rather have a Realtek if I had to. >
I'd rather have neither. I've seen some really bad behavior on onboard Realtek cards on Atom boards, all kinds of various things not working properly depending on the board. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
