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On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 09:27:29AM -0400, Dan Mann wrote: > I was just wondering if anybody had an idea which nic card might be a better > choice for me; I have a pci 3c590 and a pci smc that uses the tulip driver. > I don't have the card number for the smc with me handy, however I know both > cards were manufactured in 1995. Is either card/driver a better choice for > a mildly used file server (I am running 2.4.4 Linus)? As of 2.4.4 newer 3c90x (I guess you mean that, 3c59x should be mostly extinct now) are a better choice because they support zero copy TX and hardware checksumming while tulip does not. > faster machine it is much slower. Images take at least .5 to 1 second to > load when they are stored locally. But over the network, with 2.4.4 and > samba 2.2, It's as if the server "knows" what I'm going to ask for before I > actually do. Is this normal? I honestly don't think it was this fast when > server was on 2.2 Kernel with samba 2.07. Sounds like a serious bug. Consider reporting it. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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