Re: Hardware question: Intel 10/100 parts

[Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios%cs.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 08:14:24PM -0500, Matthew Mondor wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:51:16 -0800
> Chuck Swiger <cswiger%mac.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > Over the years, I've probably dealt with hundreds of 8255x Intel
> > NICs, and I consider them and the DEC Tulip 21x4x chips to be the most
> > reliable of the 100Mbs NICs.  (We used to buy them in 20 packs....  :-)
> 
> I concur, still having a fair number of them in store because of their
> high reliability and excellent fxp(4) support (and indeed, working
> offloading support for some models).

i82559 here, with i82555 PHY. Run's the department's IPv6 router 
(connection to Central Computing/Networking is still tunneled, alas)

        -is