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Re: Ethernet card



On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Alexander Indenbaum wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I'd like to get recomendations regarding good and reliable
> ehternet card which works well with Linux.
> Price is probably not a question here, reliability is.
> 
> We already tried Intel EtherPro and some 3Com  with same success:
> Server works for a while ( hours till weeks )  and than paniced and or
> freezed with error messages about ethernet card.
AMD (aka Lance32) and DEC chipset based cards are concerned most
reliable, also the linux support for them is above the average.
>From what I heard 3com cards basicly suck, but Intel 100mb/s card is
quite reliable..

> 
>   Alexander Indenbaum
>   baum@actcom.co.il
> 
> 

--Roman Shterenzon
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