RE: Realtek NIC issues

2009-09-04 Thread Steven M. Caesare
System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Realtek NIC issues Did you try the latest driver from Fujitsu? My experience is that the latest driver from RealTek doesn't always play nice. You are correct in your assessment that RealTek ethernet controllers are of inferior quality. Cards with Intel

RE: Realtek NIC issues

2009-09-03 Thread John Aldrich
are cheap. Get 'em by the gross and swap out as needed. J John-AldrichTile-Tools From: pierre.camill...@fosterclark.com [mailto:pierre.camill...@fosterclark.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Realtek NIC issues Hi all I thought of posting

RE: Realtek NIC issues

2009-09-03 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
: pierre.camill...@fosterclark.com [mailto:pierre.camill...@fosterclark.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 9:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Realtek NIC issues Hi all I thought of posting this here just in case someone has encountered this issue before. We have a number of Fujitsu R570

Realtek NIC issues

2009-09-03 Thread pierre . camilleri
Hi all I thought of posting this here just in case someone has encountered this issue before. We have a number of Fujitsu R570 workstations with onboard RealTek NICs. These are RTL 8168DP/8111DP Family PCI-E GBE type. We've been having intermittent issues with some of them. Sometimes they

RE: Realtek NIC issues

2009-09-03 Thread Don Guyer
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RE: Realtek NIC issues

2009-09-03 Thread Joseph Heaton
, September 03, 2009 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Realtek NIC issues Hi all I thought of posting this here just in case someone has encountered this issue before. We have a number of Fujitsu R570 workstations with onboard RealTek NICs. These are RTL 8168DP/8111DP Family PCI-E GBE

RE: Realtek NIC issues

2009-09-03 Thread John Aldrich
. Fortunately, I haven't needed to replace many NICs. :-) -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 10:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Realtek NIC issues By the gross? Wow, that's a bunch of NIC swaps... John

Re: Realtek NIC issues

2009-09-03 Thread Phil Brutsche
Did you try the latest driver from Fujitsu? My experience is that the latest driver from RealTek doesn't always play nice. You are correct in your assessment that RealTek ethernet controllers are of inferior quality. Cards with Intel and Broadcom controllers cost more, and this is a situation