On Tuesday 11 March 2003 14:57, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > [snip rtl8139 problems] > > No idea if this is feasible here, but my favourite way of solving 8139 > problems is to put a decent nic in the box (Intel EtherExpress, Tulip, > LinkSys - maybe, etc.) and ignore the PoS RTL. > > Seriously - drop Ł20-30 on a well thought-out nic and you'll not go far > wrong :-)
Agree with you completely but it's not a preferred option in this case. The reason for the onboard NIC is that this is a 2U server and while I could put in a PCI NIC I'd rather keep the inside as clean as possible to leave expansion capabilities more open. If the card proves unreliable I will definitely go with a PCI NIC (3c905). When the server in question is a web/mail server I don't think NIC performance is a huge concern (if it works, it's good enough). I have had a lot of problems with onboard eepro cards (1-2 years ago) but I've used dozens of onboard and PCI realteks, few of them had issues. Cost is absolutely not a concern, computer parts are so inexpensive right now that even a computer built from really quality components is cheap. Right now my server is out of commission as during testing it proved unstable, the DIMM was garbage. I'm awaiting delivery of registered ECC memory before resuming my tests, I tried to to be cheap on the memory and I realize now that was a mistake. -- Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://wehave.net/ Brampton, Ontario, Canada Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
