Subject: Re: Network Interface Cards
To: None <dribbling@thekeyboard.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/30/2000 16:37:33
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 12:10:57PM +0000, dribbling@thekeyboard.com wrote:
> 
> Hello Manuel!
> 
>   MB> i think the only ISA board you can find these days are
>     > realtek (ne2000-compat) based. I have some of them,
>     > and although it's not great hardware they work.
> 
> I guess that's what I'm after, something that works.  What
> makes them "not great hardware" though, build quality, board
> design, the chips themselves...?

They loose packets under load, but I'm not sure what to blame: the board,
the ISA bus, or the motherboard which gives priority to PCI over ISA.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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