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>
>The tulip cards can be quirky, if nothing else.  I used to like the VIA Rhine
>cards, because they were cheap, and I had no problems with them... until
>suddenly they started crashing at 100Mbps.  I don't know why; I ran some of
>them under very heavy loads at 100Mbps.  I can't tell whether it was new
>cards or a driver change.

Cards generally arent "quirky"; drivers are incomplete. Its all about the 
software.

DB


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