> FWIW, I *never* liked 3Com adapters, I never understood why they were so > popular with the PC crowd. My fiddling with PC networking goes as far back as '98 and Novell Netware 3.13/4.0. Back then I recall a lot of Netware folks telling my to buy nothing but 3Com as their networking gear was supposedly rock solid. Until Intel started releasing the Pro/100 & Pro/1000 series, 3Coms were pretty much all you found in my gear. Also helps that Linux drivers worked 'out of the box' in earlier versions (pre-6.0) of RH. ;-) -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie