On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 01:56, David Palmer. wrote: > But as all of this is going to applied later in a commercial > environment, I was wondering if anybody would be able to advise as to a > decent make of commercial standard Nics.
First off, avoid anything with a realtek chipset. That should avoid 90% of problems. Depending on the price performance ratio, I've found CNet PRO 200s to be good at the cheap end (Davicom chipset - dmfe driver). I have three of these in one of my routers, which has been running nonstop for a good three years now. They handle medium amounts of traffic fairly well, but I wouldn't use them in my main server, where high CPU usage could impact their performance. If you need good 100mbps performance under load, you can't go wrong with Intel. The 3Com 3c905Bs I use in my workstations also seem to take anything I can throw at them (including trying to run Q3A X11/OpenGL over a network, just to see if I could ;). DEC Tulips (if you can find them) in my experiance are picky. When they work, they work brilliantly, but I've always had major issues with full duplex settings, and getting them to not kill the interface when the cable is unplugged (which also does fun things like stop the DHCP server). Edward -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]