[ale] DHCP strangeness

[Eric Z. Ayers]

Some older FA310TX cards under the same model number were based on the
Digital Tulip chip and were great.  Supposedly, the netgear
replacement is compatible, but it just stinks.

-Eric.

Carl Forsell writes:
 > I was using cards with the ngmc chipset...
 > 
 > 
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: David Dagon <dagon at cc.gatech.edu>
 > To: Carl Forsell <cforsell at roman.net>
 > Date: Thursday, August 17, 2000 8:37 AM
 > Subject: Re: [ale] DHCP strangeness
 > 
 > 
 > >On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 08:24:50AM -0400, Carl Forsell wrote:
 > >> In my former life, as a Novell admin, I used Netgear FA310TX  nic's for a
 > >> while, and was very unhappy with them.  Lots of "weird" problems that I,
 > at
 > >> first, thought were coming from users screwing around all went away when
 > I
 > >> swapped out thos nics.  If I were you, I would replace the nic and see if
 > >> problems go away.  The obvious is sometimes the hardest to see....
 > >>
 > >
 > >May I ask: was your bad experience with the NetGear FA310TX Rev D1,
 > >with the DEC chipset, or the NetGear FA310TX with the NGMC chipset, or
 > >an even earlier version?  from the Rev D1 forward, the FA310TX have
 > >proven reliable.  (Though getting drivers in FreeBSD for the NGMC
 > >marked chips was not always possible.)
 > >
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