[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: bad nics, was AT&T@Home redux

[sysmail@glade.net]

Howdy,

Regarding the bad NICs, we had three or four Netgear FA310 and FA311 NICs
go out within a couple of weeks, and they were from both retail shelves
and from our distributor.  Just wondering what brand NICs gave the
trouble, considering the fluke failures we saw.

Incidentally, we have a network we manage that involves a couple of layers
of routers, providing private IP networking in about a dozen sites in a
campus environment. We're using Linux boxes for routers, controlling
traffic over 802.11 wireless devices.

I'm extremely please with the reliability of the Linux systems, and it was
a snap to set 'em up.  Because I was in a hurry and there are only about
twenty routes in the system, all the routes are static.

RIP would be nicer, although nobody would see any difference, but my
question is what NICs work best in a multi-ethernet adaptor system?  We're
running consumer-grade PCI adaptors, mostly Netgear and Linksys, and
they're working fine.  However, it seems that a fair number of ethernet
NICs either must be in a bus-master slot, or are just a lot happier if
they are.

While bus-mastering is probably a lot nicer for a block device like an
ethernet card, what's a good recommendation for a cheap NIC that doesn't
need mastering?

TIA!

Carl

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Carl Haddick
sysmail at glade.net
GladeNet Communications

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, WILLIAM PEARSON wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I didn't have any problem getting it to connect through my cable modem.
> Course I also have the cable modem going straight to a hub which then
> branches off to my wifes computer as well as mine. I have two static IP's
> set up for it as well, one for my wifes and one for mine. I didn't have any
> problems getting linux to see the @Home connection, merely plunked the
> domain info, gateway, DNS info and it's IP. Getting it to see the NIC is
> another story though but one I got resoved as a bunch of defective NIC's
> from Fry's.
>
> Will Pearson
>
> > Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 20:46:18 +0600
> > From: Ian Pilcher <pilcher at concentric.net>
> > To: discuss at ntlug.org
> > Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] AT&T at Home redux
> > Reply-To: discuss at ntlug.org
> >
> > High speed Internet access has finally come to the technological back-
> > water of Valley Ranch.  Unfortunately it has come in the form of AT&T
> > @Home, so it looks like I now live in a Windows-only zone.
> >
> > I just schlepped my laptop over to the house of a friend who has the
> > service installed, and I verified that it is impossible to get an IP
> > address without the supplied NETBIOS name.  A quick test with Samba was
> > unsuccessful.
> >
> > Before I retreat to a cave in the mountains out of complete disgust, has
> > anyone been able to get this new variant of @Home working with Linux?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > --
>
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