Re: Recommendations about a 100/10 NIC

John Jasen
2002-03-06T18:34:53Z

On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Tim Hockin wrote:

> > My stock recommendation is thus SMC EtherPower II cards.
>
> I've been happy with Natsemi controllers (Netgear FA-311 and Fa-312).

I've had luck with them too, as well as the SMC EZNET cards (8139too
driver) in workstations, windoze boxes and freebsd.

But the EZNET NICS especially seem to crack up under high load.

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