Good, inexpensive fiber GigE card?

Felix Rauch rauch at inf.ethz.ch
Mon Dec 16 07:28:41 PST 2002


On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Henderson, TL Todd wrote:
> Anyone have any recommendations for a good, inexpensive, well supported
> RedHat fiber GigE card?

I can only give you a warning: Stay away from DP83820 based cards
(like e.g. "Asante Friendlynet"). It's been a while since a student of
mine worked with the card, but back then it had bad performance and
hardware-bugs.

Regards,
Felix
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