Fw: [Sussex] Anyone into bondage?

[Jon Fautley]

Brendan Whelan wrote:
> Ronan,
> 
> Whoops - my spellckecker change "Netgear" to "Net" - this version is correct
> 
>  Re: "Good thought.  I've tried bonding where one of the cards was an old
> 10mb 3Com 509, which didn't support link detection and had no joy at
> all."
> 
>  The odd thing is that the problem card is new - a Netgear GA311 RevA1.

Doesn't matter - if the card doesn't support link detection then Bonding 
won't work succesfully on it. I suggest going for something like an 
Intel or a 3com card (new ones) as these are 'Server Class' cards and 
should work pretty well.

I'd personally avoid the 'budget' cards like Realtek and Broadcom for 
use in a server environment - stick with something reliable, and PDQ 
(Pretty Damn Quick) like Intel :)

Regards,

Jon

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brendan Whelan" <b_whelan at mistral.co.uk>
> To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 8:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [Sussex] Anyone into bondage?
> 
> 
> 
>>Ronan,
>>
>>Re: "Good thought.  I've tried bonding where one of the cards was an old
>>10mb 3Com 509, which didn't support link detection and had no joy at
>>all."
>>
>>The odd thing is that the problem card is new - a Net GA311 RevA1.
>>
>>Brendan
>>
> 
> 
> 
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