You could try a broadcom based card. I just use the 1000TX versions
now because some day soon it will be cheap enough to upgrade my switches. 
See man bge for more info on makes and models. [I've got a netgear]
I know the gig-E cards are a bit more expensive, but the 32bit pci versions 
are pretty reasonable. Even if you don't use gig-E, you can still turn on
hardware checksums, which is a nice feature.

Mine is in my amanda server, so it gets pounded nightly
with multiple simultaneous backups and has never even hiccuped. Of course, 
your mileage may vary.


-- 
Harry Waddell
Caravan Electronic Publishing
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On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 07:30:18 -0600
Richard Pennington <rich@pennware.com> wrote:

> I've been running with a D-Link DFE530TX (vr driver) networking card for a 
> long time (since 1.4 I think). It has occasionally "hung" and had to be 
> restarted with ifconfig down/up. As I've upgraded to 1.5, 1.6, and finally to 
> 2.0 I've hoped that this problem would go away, but it hasn't. A quick search 
> of the mailing list archives indicates that this is a known problem with this 
> ethernet chip.
> 
> I've recently moved my normal working system upstairs from the basement. My 
> NetBSD fileserver is still downstairs and it is now too far away for the 
> ifconfig solution. ;-)
> 
> My question is: Does anyone have a recommondation for a good network card 
> replacement that I can buy from Best Buy/CompUSA, etc? What brand/model 
> should I look for?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Rich
> -- 
> Richard Pennington
> Email: rich@pennware.com
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