Re: tlug: NIC data glut

["Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Frank Bennett wrote:

> I've been using an old 75mhz 486DX machine as a masquerading firewall in
> my office for the past few weeks (many thanks to list members for advice
> in getting the network cards set up).  It works, but large transfers crash
> the driver on one card.
> 
> The local interface is an old Western Digital card; the side exposed to
> the LAN is an old Allied Telesys 1700.  It is the AT1700 driver that
> crashes.

could be bad hardware, too.  I've had good luck with the rtl8139-based
cards.  I've got them in my masq firewall (2 of them) and they work great.
Have them in my other 2 x86 boxes as well.

Nice thing is, they're 10/100 PCI and they're $10.  www.ebccomputers.com.


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Scott M. Stone, CCNA <sstone@example.com>
UNIX Systems and Network Engineer
Taos - The SysAdmin Company 

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