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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
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Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:
>
> I won't disagree with your experiences.  For me, outside of one brief
> moment when the r8169 driver didn't work on Athlon64, it has worked
> flawlessly for me.
>
> RealTek 8169 is currently my favorite gigabit chip.

It does not seem to support DAC (or rather it breaks with DAC enabled), 
which makes it not very useful on any machine with >3GB of memory.

-Andi