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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