Roger Searle wrote: > Hi, I'm looking to put gigabit network cards in a couple of suse 10.2 > boxes (among others) and seeking list experience on what models/chipsets > are good/bad. For example DSE have the XH8266 supposedly supporting
Anything that works is good. Intel and 3com cards are rated up there and tend to perform better than the cheaper NICs. Be aware that a PCI bus isn't going to perform at 10x the speed of 100 Mbit. Here's some examples GigE PCI card to GigE on-board PCI card mythbox.criggie.dyndns.org 239.000Mbps 0.025 GigE PCI card to GigE PCI card sucrose.criggie.dyndns.org 196.103Mbps 0.029 GigE PCI card to 100 Mbit PCI card fw.criggie.dyndns.org 75.350Mbps 0.235 GigE PCI card to 100 Mbit PCI card through two switches thionite.criggie.dyndns.org 71.144Mbps 0.063 GigE PCI card to 100 Mbit Access Point through two switches ap0.criggie.dyndns.org 52.927Mbps 0.145 >From a 100 Mbit card back to a gigE NIC All readings topped out at around 72 Mbit. If you want to GO FAST then you're needing something better than PCI lspci shows this 06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 21) jdj 312.163Mbps 0.069 png 424.889Mbps 0.082 Even then, its not "gigabits" -- Criggie http://criggie.dyndns.org/
