Has anyone tried NIC based on the RealTek RTL8139 (A) chip? These are also branded by a few different companies: Aopen, HP, and some others.
We use these NIC all over, except for servers where we want to have the WOL option. John Tolmachoff, Network Engineer 211 E. Imperial Hwy., Suite 106 Fullerton, CA� 92835 714-578-7999, ext. 104 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.reliancesoft.com � -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 12:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Bad LAN cards (was: iMail is extremely ...) > > Netgear cards in servers?!? Noooooooooooo > > it is wise to spend the extra cash on quality nic cards >:( i learnt that the hard way FYI, we have quite a bit of experience with "less well known" LAN cards. Despite using Linksys for years without problems (ISA versions, I believe), they no longer are good. It is VERY important to use a decent LAN card on a server. Here's a rundown of several of the more common ones: 3com: Great. Everything says these are great, I haven't heard of any problems. Netgear: Do not use. Worked great for us for several months, then died, due to a problem with the drivers (it was giving BSOD's all of a sudden; we replaced with an identical Netgear card, and they continued; reinstalling the drivers didn't help). Linksys: Never use these on a server. They have a known critical flaw (they will cause the server to crash during POP3 transfers; many people have experienced this). SOHOWare: Do not use. Ours had a problem where it would corrupt one byte occasionally in packets, causing TCP/IP checksums to fail, so that many files could not be downloaded, etc. A packet sniffer on two machines proved that the SOHOWare card was altering the byte. D-Link: A cheap consumer LAN card, but it's the one handling our Internet connection right now, because we got stuck when the Neatgear conked out, and this has been working fine since. We've got some Intel and Belkins as backups that we don't have any experience with yet. We would have just bought some 3coms but never found them when we needed them! Note these are experiences that we had with these cards; your mileage may vary. -Scott --- Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for IMail. http://www.declude.com --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
