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Date:      Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:24:47 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
Cc:        Larry Librettez <lipshitz909@yahoo.com>, Gunther Schadow <gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Who's got the cheapest 100-BT Ethernet NIC?
Message-ID:  <20010410142447.B8255@grumpy.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0104101219400.22159-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>; from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:27:25PM -0500
References:  <200104100109.f3A19XP30889@grumpy.dyndns.org> <Pine.BSF.4.32.0104101219400.22159-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>

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On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:27:25PM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, David Kelly wrote:
> 
> > Couple of months ago found a vendor with a box of pulled Intel
> > 10/100's and talked them down to 3 for $24. All 3 worked, as did
> > the other 6 purchased by those looking over my shoulder.
> 
> Even if they didn't work, Intel supposedly has lifetime warranties on
> their cards (white-box or retail, so long as they're Intel brand
> cards).
> 
> I haven't had to test that warranty yet, so I don't know how easy it
> is to take them up on it.  We currently have over 500 Intel NICs from
> some old 82557 boards bought about six years ago all the way up past
> the 82559 to the new whatchamacallit with the 3DES encryption in it,
> and we've _never_ had one go bad.

Come to think of it, I knew Intel had that nice warranty. Have one that
was hit by lightning that I should look into collecting.

Most of the boards this vendor had were the '557 but a couple of '558's.

--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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