Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:24:47 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: Larry Librettez <lipshitz909@yahoo.com>, Gunther Schadow <gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who's got the cheapest 100-BT Ethernet NIC? Message-ID: <20010410142447.B8255@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0104101219400.22159-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>; from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:27:25PM -0500 References: <200104100109.f3A19XP30889@grumpy.dyndns.org> <Pine.BSF.4.32.0104101219400.22159-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:27:25PM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote: > On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, David Kelly wrote: > > > Couple of months ago found a vendor with a box of pulled Intel > > 10/100's and talked them down to 3 for $24. All 3 worked, as did > > the other 6 purchased by those looking over my shoulder. > > Even if they didn't work, Intel supposedly has lifetime warranties on > their cards (white-box or retail, so long as they're Intel brand > cards). > > I haven't had to test that warranty yet, so I don't know how easy it > is to take them up on it. We currently have over 500 Intel NICs from > some old 82557 boards bought about six years ago all the way up past > the 82559 to the new whatchamacallit with the 3DES encryption in it, > and we've _never_ had one go bad. Come to think of it, I knew Intel had that nice warranty. Have one that was hit by lightning that I should look into collecting. Most of the boards this vendor had were the '557 but a couple of '558's. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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