[NTLUG:Discuss] Best NIC

[Burton Strauss]

Well... There's the driver question and then there's the 'quality' question.

For 90% of users, any supported NIC is good enough.

If you're stressing things, such as network monitoring, busy servers, etc.,
you'll want a NIC that offloads a lot of processing onto the card.  I use
Intel and 3Com (esp. the 3C905s).

-----Burton
 

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From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf
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Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 12:11 PM
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Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Best NIC

The discussion of failing NICs has got my interest. I was planning to try my
Asus A7V8x's on-board NIC(s) but now wonder if that's a risk. Another system
will need a NIC card. What's the best NIC card available for Linux?
I tend to use Mandrake distro (9.2 currently, might go to 10.x).

Does NTLUG have a means of doing a poll, separate for this list?
=TR=


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