NIC card problems....

[Nick Barnes]

At 2005-01-24 00:00:32+0000, "Net Virtual Mailing Lists" writes:
> Hello Stefan (and everyone else!),
> 
> Thank you for your great comments!  I think I have a 3c9xx card around
> here somewhere, I will give that a shot when it reboots the next time
> (just to see).  It looks like for future systems I'll standardize on the
> Intel fxp-based cards, I really appreciate that advice!

A last piece of advice: get real EtherExpress cards.  A number of
Intel motherboards come with onboard Ethernet interfaces (maybe they
all do now), which the fxp driver understands, but the performance of
such interfaces is reputed to be much lower.

Nick Barnes