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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 13:33:53 -0500
From: John Jasen <jjasen1@umbc.edu>
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Subject: Re: Recommendations about a 100/10 NIC
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On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Tim Hockin wrote:

> > My stock recommendation is thus SMC EtherPower II cards.
>
> I've been happy with Natsemi controllers (Netgear FA-311 and Fa-312).

I've had luck with them too, as well as the SMC EZNET cards (8139too
driver) in workstations, windoze boxes and freebsd.

But the EZNET NICS especially seem to crack up under high load.

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-- John E. Jasen (jjasen1@umbc.edu)
-- In theory, theory and practise are the same. In practise, they aren't.

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