Chris,
Thanks for the info. My only interest in e100 is that it supports IANS. I
have nothing against eepro100, and after your effort, I wish I could use it.
When I was using e100 on a seperate machine with three nic cards, it
worked fine even under large loads. But I was not testing the load
capacity or fault tolerence.
So it may be worth your time to look into e100. Maybe there will be a
way to integrate e100 and IANS into the Cobalt os? Then on intitial
startup/configuration a question could be asked do you want to use the
machine as a gateway/router or combine both nics for maximum bandwidth?
Just a thought. Otherwise thanks for all the information, and I will
post my experiences good or bad. They should be good, except for the IP
alias thing, it may cause some problems as stated in a previous email.
Thanks again.
Chris Johnson wrote:
> From : Tim Hockin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote:
> >
> > > So I would ask in return, any reason why Sun/Cobalt
> > > decided to go with eepro100 instead of e100?
> >
> > General consensus amongst kernel mailing list is that e100 sucks.
> > Further, when we started hacking on eepro100.c, e100 was not
> > available, I believe.
>
> As Tim says, e100 didn't exist at the outset of the Cobalt RaQ3
> effort, so our choices were limited. At a later date, I put in
> an effort to stabilize the RaQ3 and RaQ4 line under extreme load
> on 4 eepro interfaces.
>
> I evaluated the e100 (e1000-1.1.1) at that time, and it failed
> catastrophically under load on a single interface, whereas the
> eepro100 needed three interfaces to get indigestion. It was an
> easy decision to move forward on the eepro100.c
>
> At this stage, I can't make any claims about the e100, since I
> would guess that it has evolved from V1.1.1. I do know that our
> eepro100 is decent.
>
> cj*
>
> _______________________________________________
> cobalt-developers mailing list
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
>
>
>
--
Sincerely,
William L. Thomson Jr.
Obsidian-Studios, Inc.
439 Amber Way
Petaluma, Ca. 94952
Phone 707.766.9509
Fax
707.766.8989
http://www.obsidian-studios.com
_______________________________________________
cobalt-developers mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
