Re: Ethernet card recommendations?
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Kevin Blackham wrote:
> I do _not_ recommend the Intel EtherExpress 100 line. (82557, 558, 559 chip)
> They have a receiver lockup bug which if you are pushing a lot of traffic,
> will definitely affect you. We had two EEPro100s in our mail server (one for
> smtp/pop/imap, one for nfs traffic). There was a consistent problem with
> blocked processes caused by nfs traffic backing up. There are now newer
> drivers provided by Intel, and patches available which seem to take care of
> the problem.
>
> We swapped them out for some Netgear FA 310tx, $25. Tulip chipset. They've
> been running great for a long time now. I've heard that newer productions
> of this model do not have the Tulip chip anymore. Check for that.
I don't think you can get the DEC Tulip chips anymore from Netgear. I
think they switched completely over to the LiteOn clone.
My own informal suggestion has been either the Netgear DECchip cards, or
D-Link VIA-rhine cards (don't remember the part #, but it's the 10/100
card)
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