On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Bryan Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > We want to use the MSI Wind PC for the XS but it has one big problem. It > only has 1 on-board NIC and no PCI slots. As you know, the XS requires 2 > NIC's. We have tried several different USB NIC's and are having serious > throughput problems. Is this issue one w/ the NIC or the fact that it is > connected by USB?
My main worry with USB-connected NICs would be reliability. If the NIC is reliable, but the throughput a bit below-par, you can still probably use it as the WAN NIC -- the throughput is likely to be constrained upstream anyway. - When you say throughput problems... what are you getting? How bad is it? Even if limited, would it be appropriate for the WAN port? - The problem may be specific to the driver or NIC hardware -- is there any discussion on the kernel dev list about it? - The problem may be with the USB bus on the MS Wind, hardware or drivers. Perhaps testing for bus throughput or interrupt handling helps? - Have you tested the reliability of the devices? This may be a larger problem. cheers, martin -- [email protected] [email protected] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
