RE: Tulip cards..

I purchased about 30 of them at a time, had trouble and moved on. I know that some tulips work correctly and well, but it seems (RE: Donald Becker, I believe) that DEC is changing the internal core of the tulip chip, while keeping the interface pretty much compatible. Some of them work better than others compatibility wise. In my case, I knew almost immediately that the card wasn't working correctly, from the interface statistics on my switches... Not to mention shitty throughput and latency.

RE: Via-rhine...

I didn't realize that the 530TX was hiting the Rhines as well. Does anyone remember the days when manufacturers actually changed the part number when the part changed???????