Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Mar 2002 12:36:24 -0500 | From | John Jasen <> | Subject | Re: Recommendations about a 100/10 NIC |
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On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Ken Brownfield wrote:
> Haven't had any issues at all with eepro100 or e100 under production > load for years. Since Tulip went out of the mainstream (poor Digital) > the EtherExpress has been the most stable everywhere I've been. I've > written too many scripts for 3Com boxes that grep dmesg for "fatal" > errors and unload/reload the 3com module.
Ran into problems with Intel EtherExpress cards under Alpha a while back, and I've had a _lot_ of problems with the revision of the EtherExpress built into motherboards, versus the intel or kernel drivers for them.
My stock recommendation is thus SMC EtherPower II cards.
-- -- John E. Jasen (jjasen1@umbc.edu) -- In theory, theory and practise are the same. In practise, they aren't.
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