----- Forwarded message from Pedro Braga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:35:03 +0100 From: Pedro Braga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) To: Christofer Algotsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Ethernet Card recommendation I had a entire class room with D-Link DFE-530TX, based on VIA-Rhine chipset, two years ago and what happened was they forget their MAC address!!!! i.e., the machines stop responding and when I went to the room to see what was wrong, the ifconfig command returned the mac like 00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00!!!!! amazing!!!! isn't it? I just don't ever used again D-Links!!!! Christofer Algotsson wrote: > Of course I meant the DFE-570TX card. > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 06:55:00PM +0100, Gavin Hamill wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 02:16:24AM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote: > > > > > > > I have about 5 dlinks i can hang with just a pingflood! I'll never buy > > > > dlink nics again! > > > > > > We use the D-Link 530TX, it's a 4 port card based on the tulip chipset (21152 > > > to be exact) ... they've worked flawlessly for us in many different > > > environments. > > > > Yes, the 570TX (I think it's 570 rather than 530) is an excellent > > card, but I'd expect expect no less from a DEC-based chipset. :) > > > > I too have had awful problems with the D-Link cards based on the VIA > > Rhine chipset.. random lockups (on Linux, NT4 and Win2000) .. very nasty > > stuff :( > > > > Just reinforces why I don't trust VIA, and will never buy a Athlon so > > long as VIA are producing the mobo chipsets for them ... > > > > gdh > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > > Christofer, > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Christofer, - Certified Computer Geek. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
