Best network card

[discipledoc]

What is the best NIC for a Mandrake Server?

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[discipledoc]

....well?

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[klamath]

Ethernet (10 mbit) or Fast Ethernet (100 mbit)?

I usually just stick with NE2000 compatible, no-name cards. They've always worked for me. Unless you need very-high performance, they are cheap and easy to setup.

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[klamath]

....well?

Did you expect an answer in faster than 9 minutes? Be patient, and don't knock stuff up to the top unless it's actually warranted.

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[FoBoT]

the cheapest one that works well http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif

IMHO there is less variance in quality now than in the past

many large companies get 3com for quality (although alot of it has to do with the name brand mentality as well)
but the only nic i have ever used that was "broken" was a 3com

they just pretty much all work just fine

[MGP]

Any cheap 10/100 card that works for you is good. Getting a 10Mbps NIC is just dumb, since the 10/100 can always work at 10MBps and should cost you less than $20 (US).

That said, I really like Netgear FA310TX 10/100 NIC's. Thay have worked flawlessly in every OS I've tried them in. In Linux, it uses the DEC Tulip driver. I think I have installed about 100 of them now and never had one not work or fail on me. You should be able to find them in your local computer stores or online for less than $20.

[Avoid the similarly named FA311TX. It uses a different chipset and it seems people have all kinds of trouble with it in Linux.]

Big brand names like 3Com and Intel are OK in general also. But you end up paying quite a bit of a premium for the name.

Edit: Also, I see you are using this for a server. I used two FA310TX's in both a Redhat 6.2 and Linux Mandrake 7.0 webserver and they worked fine with dual NIC cards in the system. A lot of people will tell you that the more expensive NIC will "reduce your CPU overhead", but in all the tests I've run (mostly on Windows systems moving LARGE files like 250MB+) I have not found the difference to be significant. Just a few percent difference in CPU usage at the most.

[This message has been edited by MGP (edited 19 January 2001).]

[AWebDesign]

The best name brand is 3com, but they are expensive. I've had success w/ linksys, but they are hard to get to work right (sometimes??). You could just find a chip set that works w/ linux, then go and find a card using that on pricewatch.com, you can usually get them for like 5-10 bucks

Aaron

[Gweedo]

if you have the cash get a 3com, they are fscking work horses. I have always used them and have never experienced any major setup or reliability problems.

if you want to get a cheaper one, then I tend to shy away from Linksys and go with Dlink. The reason I shy away from Linksys is because it seems many people struggle with them to get them setup correctly with linux.

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