NIC's and Hubs

[agabriel at coe.neu.edu (Anthony J. Gabrielson)]

Hello,
	I have always had good luck with 3com cards.  I ussually use a
3c905 card - I use those on my home network.

Hope thats a help,
Anthony

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Henry Smith wrote:

> Hi again,
> 
> Still trying to get my LAN up and working. Got some more RAM for the
> Gateway P5-60 as people had suggested. But now I come up with two questions.
> 
> 1.) I am looking for proper NIC's for this box as the
> Server/Gateway/Firewall... It has two open PCI slots so that looks like the
> way to go, one for the LAN and the other for the Cable Modem.
> 
> I've been poring over at the "Ethernet HOWTO" to get some better idea of
> what I should be buying. Also looked at the cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux
> site. Lots of good info. But I am having a hard time comparing the NIC's in
> the HOWTO with those I can find for sale using CNET. Am close to settling
> in on an SMC EZ 10/100 UTP card. But even here I am having trouble figuring
> out if this is a card that is listed in the HOWTO or not. Same problem with
> some other cards.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions of a good reliable, relatively inexpensive
> NIC? I guess I can live just fine with 10BaseT but if the price is right, I
> might opt for the higher speed as I was clearly considering with the SMC EZ.
> 
> 2.) Also, I am thinking that a hub is a hub is a hub <G>, so just about any
> hub ought to do if that is the case. Does anyone care to comment on this as
> well?
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Henry
> Dr. Henry J. P. Smith
> TPE Associates
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