Fast Ethernet Card

[Robert G. Brown]

On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Joel Jaeggli wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Leonardo Valcamonici wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Sean McPherson wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > 
> > Do use NICs based on the DEC Tulip chip such as DEC DE500AA, DEC DE500BA,
> > SMC EtherPower, Kingston, etc.
> > They are fast and reliable.
> > Cheers,
> 
> The currently available smc etherpower, the II model is based on the epic
> two chipset, their own in-house product. It's not bad but it wouldn't be
> my first choice...

I second the tulip endorsement, but note that the eepro100 from Intel is
a decent card and works well on high speed/high power and SMP systems
(although it is a bit more expensive than some of the tulips).  If you
get a motherboard with eepro100 onboard (Intel makes several) it works
fine, don't worry.

   rgb

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