From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Glen Mabey Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 19:33:00 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] the "cisco vs. Linux" thread Message-Id: <20040708193300.GA30890@mabeys.dsl.aros.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:07:57PM -0400, Jos? Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote: > you can use an Athlon > 64 with DDR RAM and very good network hardware (that is very, very > important) Regarding NICs, are there any recommendations out there for which manufacturers to go with? I don't need anything faster than 100baseT. I would think that Intel and 3Com would be in the "reliable" category, and RTL-based cards in the "forget it" category. On the Intel note, I wonder what experience y'all have had with the two different drivers for the EtherExpressPro/100 card. That is, eepro100 versus e100. I would think that noone would take the time to rewrite a driver if there wasn't anything wrong with the original one. Thank you-- Glen Mabey -- ****************************************************************** Glen W. Mabey Glen.Mabey@usu.edu http://mabeys.homelinux.com/glen/ ****************************************************************** _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/