John R Pierce wrote:
> On 06/20/12 12:21 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
>> I am being persuaded that you are right. I'll have to look at the
>> mother board to answer Dale's question; the machine and the nic card
>> came from Fry's. I have had pretty good luck with Fry's in the past,
>> but this has turned out to be a real pain.
>>
>> What chip set, or what pci-e nic card would you recommend?
>
> I've had good luck with Intel ethernet chips/cards, especially the
> server oriented ones.
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We've got a lot of Broadcom ones. IIRC, Realtek tends towards consumer
grade, not server grade.
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