On 6/24/11, Tim Nelson <tnelson at rockbochs.com> wrote: > Realtek NICs are known to be some of the poorest interfaces available. A > quality Intel or Broadcom NIC will set you back very little in terms of > cost. Just replace it and be done. :) I was afraid that might be the case (already had two Intel NICs in the shopping cart to be honest) but was hoping I didn't have to waste time explaining why the plentiful Realtek NICs around cannot be used for testing.