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On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 03:06:38PM +0200, Jan Ries wrote:
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> > > If you are using cards with the rtl8139 chipset (for example, and own experience) the simpelest solution
> > > could be to get one (1) other card.
> >
> > I'm just curious, but what is the problem with that chipset. So far i didn't have problems with it, even after
> > a few terabytes of transfer :-)
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> The problem I experienced more than one time is that , if on both sides is an 8139, and on one side a windowsbox (at least win95,98 and NT4) and on the other a samba server than the datarate went down to ca. 25 kB/s in both directions, on a 10Mbit network.
> With one other card on either side all is fine.
> I found similar problems described in usenet-threads, so I generalised my experience.
> That's the whole story.
ok thanx
didn't have problems so far since i work in a linux only environment :-)
stijn
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> jan