Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jun 1999 23:39:14 +0100 (BST) | From | Tim Fletcher <> | Subject | Re: NIC differences |
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> > I have been shopping around to purchase 60 NIC cards. There seems to be a > > broad range in prices between $8 to $100 for PCI bus master NIC cards. > > What type of performance differences would I see in using say a $10 bus > > master Generic NIC (10/100) card instead of a say $50 to $100 3COM > > (10/100) NIC. Is there any real justification for purchasing the more > > expensive cards for creating a LINUX cluster > > > > As far as the expensive NICs go, I would suggest you to stay away from > 3com cards. I have found from expearance that they fail quite often. not > to say that 3com wont ship you new cards to replace them, but do you realy > want to mess with them. From my expearance (the past 1.5 years) about 25% > of all 3com NICs come from the box are bad. Personaly, I use Intel > NICs. They are similar in price to the 3coms, and similar in performance.
I also dislike 3com (their isa one's were nice, the pci ones have feature's) I got more syslog errors about my cyclone in my box in a week than the dec tulip gave in a year (about 10 transmitter errors on the same hardware). Intel eepro10/100's have a problem woth multicast when using the in kernel driver (you need a newer one form Don Becker). I think that your best bet for price / performance is to look at the tulip clones (Netgear do one)
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