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List:       inet-access
Subject:    Re: recommended lan cards
From:       Chris <chrism () oneup ! com>
Date:       2000-10-27 0:57:03
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> From: jlewis@lewis.org
> Reply-To: list@inet-access.net
> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 20:50:32 -0400 (EDT)
> To: list@inet-access.net
> Subject: Re: recommended lan cards
> 
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Adam Rothschild wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 09:17:46PM +0800, Lloyd Casafranca wrote:
>>> can anyone recommend good 10/100 lan cards that could work
>>> in a firewall(2 cards/pc)configuration.
>> 
>> Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 is good, as is genuine (read: no cheap
>> imitation chips from PNIC or LiteOn) DEC Tulip.
> 
> The trouble with trying to buy Tulip cards is manfacturers have been known
> to suddenly switch chips (from genuine to either PNIC or LiteOn) without
> changing the name of the product...so you buy a few cards, they work, you
> buy a case of them, and you end up with crap.
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jon Lewis *jlewis@lewis.org*|

Yeah I have seen this too.  What I do now is just go to CompUsa so I can
look in the packaging.  The extra money is a rip off, but at least I don't
waste time with getting crap.

Chris

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