I just recently purchased two D-Link DGE-500T network
adapters; one placed in the NT server, and the other
placed in a linux box running 2.4.14. The card in the
nt box runs fine, however having tried two diffrent
drivers (ns820 and ns83820) in the linux box does not
allow the card to work as expected.
The linux box acts as a bridge between the nt
server and the various segments (the nt server
connects directly to the linux box - idea to increase
the bandwidth of this connection to 1GBit.) It also
acts as a ipmasqing gateway/firewall for access to the
internet for the two internal networks through an
ethernet connection to a cable modem. Also acts as a
gateway between the two internal networks and to
direct incoming VPN connections from the internet to
the NT server.
With the ns820 driver the card will work fine but
will not work at a 1Gbit data rate - works at
100Mbits.
The ns83820 driver will allow me send normal sized
pings to the server and allow me to see the rest of
the network from the nt server, but not much else.
Trying to transfer any files between windows boxes
over 300-400 bytes will result in the a error message
to the effect of 'This device is no longer available
on the network'. It would almost seem as there is
some problem handling fragments with this driver or
that there is some type of mtu bug.
Any help is appreciated...as well as any
recommendations for a decent 1Gbit networking card
that runs well under linux 2.4.x.
Thank you
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