Running RealTek cards in two 2000 servers and have only had problems with Intel and SMC nic cards.... My RealTek cards have been flawless and have given great performance.
Robert ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Tripp Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 07:55:36 -0500 >My .02 to add to this list: > >Realtek - do not use - XP and 2000 tend to be very unstable with these boards. > >Tripp > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 3:41 PM >Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Bad LAN cards (was: iMail is extremely ...) > > >> >> > > Netgear cards in servers?!? Noooooooooooo >> > > it is wise to spend the extra cash on quality nic cards >> >> >:( i learnt that the hard way >> >> FYI, we have quite a bit of experience with "less well known" LAN >> cards. Despite using Linksys for years without problems (ISA versions, I >> believe), they no longer are good. It is VERY important to use a decent >> LAN card on a server. Here's a rundown of several of the more common ones: >> >> 3com: Great. Everything says these are great, I haven't heard of any >> problems. >> >> Netgear: Do not use. Worked great for us for several months, then died, >> due to a problem with the drivers (it was giving BSOD's all of a sudden; we >> replaced with an identical Netgear card, and they continued; reinstalling >> the drivers didn't help). >> >> Linksys: Never use these on a server. They have a known critical flaw >> (they will cause the server to crash during POP3 transfers; many people >> have experienced this). >> >> SOHOWare: Do not use. Ours had a problem where it would corrupt one byte >> occasionally in packets, causing TCP/IP checksums to fail, so that many >> files could not be downloaded, etc. A packet sniffer on two machines >> proved that the SOHOWare card was altering the byte. >> >> D-Link: A cheap consumer LAN card, but it's the one handling our Internet >> connection right now, because we got stuck when the Neatgear conked out, >> and this has been working fine since. >> >> We've got some Intel and Belkins as backups that we don't have any >> experience with yet. We would have just bought some 3coms but never found >> them when we needed them! Note these are experiences that we had with >> these cards; your mileage may vary. >> >> >> -Scott >> --- >> Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for >> IMail. http://www.declude.com >> >> --- >> [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] >> >> >> Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >> to be removed from this list. >> >> An Archive of this list is available at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >> > > >Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >to be removed from this list. > >An Archive of this list is available at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
