Please help

[Jason Thomas]

Does anyone know if the dfe500tx card uses the chip from intel. I emailed
them yesterday, No reply yet.


Brian Leeper [qaz@doubled.com] wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Jason Thomas wrote:
> 
> > So what chipset do we use when the tulips are all gone.  My understanding is
> > they are no longer manufactured, as digital no longer exist.
> 
> The Kingston KNE100TX uses a 21143 Tulip chip with the Intel logo on it.
> 
> I'm not aware of any plans that Intel has to discontinue this chip(they
> own the rights to it now), and it would be a major problem for Kingston as
> well as for Cobalt Networks who uses the 21143 in the Cobalt RaQ server.
> 
> The Intel EEPro chip can't replace the 21143, no matter how much Intel may
> try to market the EEPro (my understanding is that it has a broken
> multicast filter, the data book is wrong in several critical places, ad
> nauseam). 
> 
> Brian
> 
> 

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