Luke Scharf said...

|One easy solution would be to just buy a new NIC.  I've had great luck
|with cheap RTL8139 cards -- they supposedly don't do well under high
|load conditions (a server that keeps its link saturated most of the
|time), but they seem to work well for everyday desktop/workstation use. 
|Plus, the 100mbit cards are less than $12 from a local mom&pop computer
|shop.

I was going to recommend another NIC as well.
I think we're using an SMC-based 1GB NIC for
the servers and 3coms for the edsktops.  I
keep hoping Soekris will come out with 1GB
cards.