Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Best token ring card for ethereal?

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From: Holger Marzen <holger@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:40:52 +0200 (CEST)
On 11 Sep, puzzled wrote:
> 
>     I have a linux box that totally disagrees with the IBM 16/4 card that I normally use. I
> haven't needed to do any sniffing on token ring yet so the 16/4 has been fine but that will
> change soon. Can someone recommend a token ring card that works well with redhat 6.0? I can
> use PCI or ISA and I am not too price sensitive. Please tell me there is a 3com product that
> fits the bill. I've looked at the mini howto that is out there but it looks like support for
> that one died about the time redhat 4.1 came out :-(
> 

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The IBM cards cannot be set in promiscuous mode.
Madge cards can, but their driver is buggy.
Olicom are best, but I have only tested the older non-Rapidfire cards.
Rapidfire drivers are available, but I didn't test them.