Good network card?

[ANdrei]

I'd suggest 3com ethernet cards. Here in Romania I could find them used (but 
working) for 3euros (100Mbps), and they did the job for years after that... 
Even if you pay 20euros for new ones, they're worth it. Tulip clones work 
pretty well in my opinion, and also Davicom chipsets (last ones I found for 
6euros for 100Mbps, new in Germany, work very well). I have built a server 
myself now and went for the 3Com, am very happy with it (older model, 905 or 
smtg, seen by the xl driver, and though second hand works very well).
I can also recomment Intel on the expensive side, and I've had good 
experiences with Realtek RTL8139B also, back when I was using smtg like 
that, never had any problems with them (8139C or the 10Mbps 8029 were 
horrible, though). RTL8139 is a cheap and not very realiable solution, but 
if you're lucky and find a good brand, they can do the job (I had some 
pretty bad ones from Genius, though, keep off of them).

I'm not an expert in kernel trap and watchdog timeouts, but as it sounds to 
me I'd also check my hard drives or controller... had some nasty problems 
myself with those AND a faulty memory stick, but even after taking the 
faulty mem out, th hard drives kept getting me weird errors and eventually 
rebooting after some kernel trap (flew by quickly, seemed like "kernel trap 
11 - that's bad!" though, so not 12).


hope this helps a bit,
ANdrei
http://students.oamk.fi/~t6ruan00/
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel A." <alive at dienub.org>
To: "Mike Jakubik" <mikej at rogers.com>
Cc: <hardware at freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: Good network card?


> Mike Jakubik wrote:
>> Daniel A. wrote:
>>> Considering that I am quite poor - What PCI ethernet cards should I buy 
>>> for my server? And could you suggest a cheap motherboard which isn't bad 
>>> too?
>>
>> Cheap and good rarely go together. If you want a good network card, i 
>> recommend an Intel Pro 100 or 1000.
>>
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> Well, there have been cases of cheap hardware being reliable. As far as 
> I'm concerned, Seagate makes some serious bang for the buck (In the case 
> of hard drives, of course), and they are in the lower price range of 
> drives over here in Denmark.
>
> I was wondering if there was any analogy in the world of network cards. 
> But Intel Pro sounds like something I'd like to have.
>
> Thanks for your answer :)
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