I've just purchased some Belkin 10/100 PCI NICs which _seem_ to have the Realtek 8139 chip with a Belkin sticker over the top !!!
Rather annoying :-( Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Malcolm Baldridge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 9:49 AM Subject: Re: [Samba] conflict between Realtek 8139 (client) and3c2000T(server) NIC's with Samba? > I *might* be a Realtek issue... I have heard that Sage (the accounts > software folk) say that their software will not work properly over a > network which uses these Realtek cards. Save yourself far more than the few dollars of false economy and throw away your Realtek junk. I had so many "strange" and "seemingly application level" problems just vanish when I put real 3Com/Intel/etc network cards into my servers and workstations. The 8139, 8169, et al... all of them are junk. I just spent a week diagnosing a strange packet loss issue with the 8169 (GigE) interface which only manifested itself under pretty heavy loads in a difficult to reproduce manner. It occurred often enough to break my application at least twice a day, but I couldn't get it to fail predictably so I could easily debug it. After the usual wasted DAYS of swapping NICs, cables, switches, and even machines... I changed to an Intel network card, and all of my problems were solved. Do yourself a favour: get rid of that junk. The math just doesn't work. Cost delta of NIC? Maybe $15-20 tops. Cost your wasted time? HUNDREDS of $$$, at least. =Malcom= -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.690 / Virus Database: 451 - Release Date: 22/05/2004 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
