[geeks] Linux disparity

[nick at snowman.net]

And I've installed somewhere on the order of 4k 3com 3C905xx cards with 4
failures.  I've installed far far fewer intels & tulips, and had probably
5-10 bad cards between them, which is pretty good, ~1% failure rate.
	Nick

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 vance at neurotica.com wrote:

> 
> I've never had a problem with Tulip or Intel.
> 
> Peace...  Sridhar
> 
> On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 nick at snowman.net wrote:
> 
> > Erm, they're about the most reliable, best supported card I've ever run
> > across.  If they do put an extra .005% of load on the server I'll live
> > with that for stability.
> > 	Nick
> >
> > On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, David Cantrell wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 12:39:00PM +0000, Mike Meredith wrote:
> > > > I don't remember it coming up here, but nobody I work with would stick a
> > > > 3com network card into a server because of the load they are rumoured
> > > > to put onto the CPU.
> > >
> > > But on the other hand, they do Just Work, and so if you must use PeeCees,
> > > you might as well use 3com.
> > >
> > > --
> > > David Cantrell | Member of the Brute Squad | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david
> > >
> > >     You are so cynical.  And by "cynical", of course, I mean "correct".
> > >          -- Kurt Starsinic
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