Re: Probably FAQ - which network card?

Subject: Re: Probably FAQ - which network card?
From: Thomas Schierle (ts@visual-s.de)
Date: Fri May 18 2001 - 12:46:29 EDT

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On 01-05-18 16:39 +0200, Anton Coetzee wrote:

> Suitable cards I have heard about are the SMC Etherpower series, and the
> Intel Etherexpress.

My SuSE 7.0 server equipped with an SMC Etherpower II card exhibits
slight problems on startup -- sometimes the NIC refuses to work and
I have to reboot several times in a row to get networking up and
running.

In addition, due to the Ethernet FAQ, hardware multicast support of the
83c170 chipset is broken and therefore done in software. Because AppleTalk
makes rather heavy use of multicast, you might prefer a NIC with
working hardware multicast support at least for netatalk servers under
heavy load.

Probably an Intel Etherexpress NIC is the best bet for netatalk servers.

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