My .02 to add to this list: Realtek - do not use - XP and 2000 tend to be very unstable with these boards.
Tripp ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 3:41 PM 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/
