16 Mar
2012
16 Mar
'12
9:03 p.m.
--On Friday, March 16, 2012 07:41:18 PM +0000 Ken Smith kens@kensnet.org wrote:
Hi all, I swapped a Realtek 8139 100M Net Card for a Realtek 8169 Gig Net card in a Centos 5.6 system.
Although the 100M versions were passable, I found the GB versions to be so flakey to be not worth it; I ripped them out and replaced them with Intel cards, which have been solid.
In my case, I found that under load they would just "go away" ... become unresponsive and need a power cycle to clear them. (It didn't appear to be an autoneg issue.)
In some cases, they didn't get recognised at boot, either, whereas a subsequent reboot *might* make them come back.
Devin