On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 05:35:12PM -0500, Michael Rice wrote:
| > Has anyone seen any stats or comparisons which rate 100Mb ethernet cards
| > (reliability, speed, and cost in that order of importance) when used
| > specifically in linux systems?
|
| just third hand, someone mentioned a group writing software to run on a
| large distributed system that rated several network cards.
|
| For high sustained traffic (larger packets, I believe they said), the
| Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 cards topped their list. For smaller packet
| sizes they favored the Tulip based cards (I believe Kingston and one other
| brand was mentioned).
|
| sorry I don't have a reference handy
Me neither, but I've found tulip based cards to be big winners. Under
Linux, they're fast, cpu efficient and cheap - I've recently gotten
them at CompUSA for $25-$10 rebate (Netgear FA310TX. Got two of them,
and they're both working great.)
Oddly enough, they have Linux drivers on the floppy. It's just a copy
of tulip.c, so you've already got it, but that's still kind of neat,
in a perverse sort of way.
Don't know about the EtherExpress Pro 10/100 cards.
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Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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