Well supported, reliable NICs for Redhat Linux/Fedora?

[Klaasjan Brand]

On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 13:40, Iain Rae wrote:

> see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98767
> 
> 
> basically the cards lock up when kudzu is run during the boot process 
> and the machine has to be power-cycled to get them back into a working 
> condition. It seems to be limited to the 905, the B's and C's seem to 
> work fine, also the 905's themselves seem to work fine with the 2.6 kernel.
> 
> I've kind of worked round the problem, my work has just thrown out a 
> bunch of PC's with 905b's in them and I retrieved the cards from the 
> dustbin,

Looks like the problem will be around for a while then, if noone cares
to fix it. Don't know how many cards it affect though, could be the
number of 905a cards is limited.

> > The Realtek cards are ok, but a bit broken by design (the driver works
> >around that, but don't be surprised when your logs show "hanging
> >transceiver reset" or other vague messages. 
> >
> AFAICR they're not very high performance cards either.

They generate more processor overhead, but the network performance is
about equal to the 3com cards as far as I've seen. For a server with
multiple interfaces I'd choose another brand.

Klaasjan