tulip 100mps card; need advice

[Eugene Sevinian <sevinian@aya.yerphi.am>]

Hi ppl, today I had a problems with DEC21143 tulip cards. The problem was
that card goes into 10mps mode just after linux loading. It seems that
there are problems with tulip drivers. Tommorow I will try to recompile
the kernel defining default media type 100baseTx. Probably this will help
somehow. HOwever I would like to know is there any any 100mps cards which
are working reliable at heaivy load. The main goal is to setup a network
with star topology, i.e. one central box with 6-7 100mps channels attached
to it as well 4-5 10mps ones. Any suggesions concerning hardware
components for this central box? How much ROM, which CPU and motherboard I
should look for? 

Thanks for any points, 

Eugene Sevinian

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