For the most part, any ethernet NIC will work just fine. I'd only suggest that a PCI NIC would be best (although you might be ok with an ISA card, as well).
As far as the brand, almost all NICs perform identically, speed wise. Any of the lower cost NICs should do just fine (linksys, soho, d-link, etc). A low cost NIC can be easily had for less than $20 if you look around a little.
The expensive NICs (3com, Intel) buy you better technical support/updated drivers for new OSs, if anything at all.
I would certainly recommend that you, at least, start with a low cost NIC.
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