I only have one machine I can really leave up, but it has a really cheap
($29) NE2000 clone and has had uptimes of >30 days using it every day as
my primary workstation (reboots caused mostly by power outages, but once
or twice unpleasant NFS hangs when servers went away without notice). I
used NFS client very heavily, lots of X and FTP client and server, milder
use of NFS server. This has been stable since 1.2.6 or so when the
longstanding NE2000 problems were resolved, and I'm now on 1.3.10 + some
misc patches and an uptime of 9 days.
So it is quite possible to have long uptimes on NE2000s, at least with
newer kernels.
----David C. Niemi---niemidc@clark.net---703-904-3596---Reston, VA USA----
We have a long and rich history, but no future save what we dare to dream.