how reliable is the Tulip card? say compared to teh RealTek. The server I am
using it for needs reliability and speed. Its on a 100MB/s switch. Both
cards are 10/100. And I ment RedHat 6.0/Mandrake 6.0. I mean I did an
upgrade form RedHat 6.0 to Mandrake 6.0
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Philp
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 7:30 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] NICs
>
>
> Singer XJ Wang wrote:
> >
> > I have two NICs that work both under LINUX. I have an SMC EZ Card 1211TX
> > [RealTek 8139 Chipset] and a SMC EtherPower 9332 [DEC21140
> Tulip] chipset.
> > The question I have is what one I should use to optimize
> performance under
> > LINUX? I use RedHat 6.0.
>
> The 8139 card will be reliable but slow. The Tulip card will give
> better performance.
>
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> Steve Philp
> Network Administrator
> Advance Packaging Corporation
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