On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Mark Hahn wrote:
> > Is that one of the 'new' FA310TX with the NetGear chip instead of the
> > DEC marked chip? Seems like I had some problems using the NetGear
> > marked chip. The DEC ones are great.
>
> tulip clones, such as the Lite-On chips that NetGear now ships in
> fa310tx cards, WORK FINE. they work fine. they work fine!
> they are tulip _clones_, only minor modifications of the original
> chips from DEC. they work fine. they work fine. yes, when a vendor
> comes out with a new stepping, you might need to update your driver,
> BUT THEY WORK FINE. there have been reports of interrupt-sharing
> problems with some tulip cards (clone or not), but there are fixes,
> even for the "heritage" 2.0 kernels.
Work yes, perform like tulips, no. My netperf numbers between two
Lite On's are 75% of a tulip. For some this is OK, for other
who are used to line speed, this is not so good.
I can post numbers if anyone is interested.
Doug
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