Re: tulip 100mps card; need advice

[shaleh@clifford.livenet.net]

> 
> 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? 
> 

I had this problem with the older 2.1.x kernels.  Newer kernels seem happy.