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At 11:42 PM 2/28/01 -0600, maney@pobox.com (Martin Maney) wrote:
>3c509s are fine if you only want to do 10M, and pulls have been a glut onthe
>market for a while now. But I've never yet met a bad NE2K clone, so maybe I
>just have good luck with NICs. :-)
While I don't recall meeting any bad NE2000 clones, I did have a fun
experience with the real Novell/Anthem ones years ago. Mr. Murphy was
having a party that day.
Picture this- I had a weekend to upgrade our file server from Novell 3.12
to 4.1 (Actually all I needed was more users, but the pricing was the same
for upgrading vs just getting the user licence, silly me wanted to play in
the newer sandbox, had no business reason for upgrading) Had aborted the
install on a previous weekend (due to SCSI driver problems IIRC). At the
start of the weekend, the NIC in my test server dies (replaced just to
continue). At the end of the upgrade, on monday morning another NIC was
dead in a users PC. We had a mix of Real NE2000's and clones, and the
Novell/Anthem board had their Bios's socketed. The chip's had backed out
on each board. Only on that weekend, never had that problem again, but I
also started checked chip seating when using these cards.
Matt Wehland
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