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Date:      Mon, 03 May 1999 18:45:50 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Decent network cards for 100Mbit?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990503184550.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199905030841.QAA25568@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com>

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On 03-May-99 Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote:
>  Having discovered that the Realtek chipset is a flatulent sack of pus, I'm 
>  wondering what results people have had with other PCI network cards, and
>  what 
>  order of preference they'd put them in.

DEC Tulip cards are nice.. I have noticed that when you change media they get
confused (you have to flush the arp table and generally kick it a bit) but they
seem quite nice.

Intel Etherexpress pro 10/100's are probably better but I've only used one for
a short while :)

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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