At 06:51 PM 7/12/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>The onboard network card failed on my CS dedicated server. It has been
>temporarily replaced by a 3com EtherLink XL (3C905B-TX). Is this card
>suitable for supporting a high bandwidth server, or do others have
>better recommendations?
It's a perfectly suitable card, doesn't tax the CPU hardly at all, but
you will find since it's an older card drivers aren't going to be updated and
some of the trendy stuff like on-nic prioritization are missing. One thing to
keep in mind is you're still dealing with the PCI bus now for your network
card, and at 133MHz you're never going to push gigabit speeds out of it. In
fact, you're going to do well to get 80Mbps out of a 100Mbps full-duplex card
anyway. Lock the card and switchport at 100 full so you're not getting duplex
mismatches and let it run.
- Dan
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