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From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 12:57:25 -0400
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Subject: Re: NIC suggestion
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On Jul 6, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Casey Scott wrote:
> I am experiencing the same rebooting under network stress that  
> others on
> this list have reported. The box is using 3com 905b's, and I would  
> like to
> try another NIC in the box to make sure that this isn't just a driver
> issue, though I strongly suspect it isn't. Can someone suggest a  
> common
> 100 MB NIC that has proven to be very stable in 5.x?

The two that come to mind are the DEC 21x4x Tulip (dc) and the Intel  
8255x (fxp).

-- 
-Chuck