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From: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
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Subject: Re: Good, stable gigabit nic?
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On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 11:04:23PM -0700, John Pettitt wrote:
> 
> My gigabit nic has gone bad (after months of working just fine  it's
> saying "sk0 watchdog timeout" after a day or so of operation - temp
> fix is to reboot) - I'm looking for pointers for a low cos but
> functional gigabit PCI 32 card that runs under 5.4 without issues.  
> What works for you?

Cards using the RealTek 8169S chipset are cheap (~10 Euro) and are
working without a problem here.
-- 
Markus