> > Hi ppl, today I had a problems with DEC21143 tulip cards. The problem was > that card goes into 10mps mode just after linux loading. It seems that > there are problems with tulip drivers. Tommorow I will try to recompile > the kernel defining default media type 100baseTx. Probably this will help > somehow. HOwever I would like to know is there any any 100mps cards which > are working reliable at heaivy load. The main goal is to setup a network > with star topology, i.e. one central box with 6-7 100mps channels attached > to it as well 4-5 10mps ones. Any suggesions concerning hardware > components for this central box? How much ROM, which CPU and motherboard I > should look for? >
I had this problem with the older 2.1.x kernels. Newer kernels seem happy.
