Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 02 Oct 2001 22:01:34 -0600 | From | "D. Stimits" <> | Subject | Re: Best gigabit card for linux |
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Seth Goldberg wrote: > > Hi, > > I ordered 2 NSC-based giga ethernet cards (copper) and I was able to > get 54.4 Megabytes/s sustained (between an amd athlon 1200 MHz and an > athlon 1000 MHz) on kernel v2.4.5. > > Since these card cost $45 each, i HIGHLY recommend them. The actualy > manufacturer is a company called Cameo in Taiwan.
Are those available in 64 bit pci slot format? I assume for that price they run in 32 bit slots (which is no doubt a bottleneck on a real gigabit).
D. Stimits, stimits@idcomm.com
> > --Seth > > Colin Frank wrote: > > > > In the following test. I was able to achieve close to 40 MegaBytes > > per second using the packet engines Hamachi driver. > > > > http://www.linuxcare.com/labs/sol-val/3w-esc6800-web.epl > > Test done with: > > Packet engines Hamachi card > > 3ware escalade 6800 > > 2.2.16 kernel. > > Cisco 6500 > > 10 - 20 client machines each with eepro100 cards > > > > Colin... > > > > Abe Hayhurst wrote: > > > > >Hi Alan, > > > > > >I wanted to know your opinion as to which combination of gigabit cards (both > > >fiber and copper) and drivers would yield the best performance (mostly > > >transferring large files from server to client, but also latency) in Linux. > > >I am not a programmer, a kernel tweaker, or a driver developer. I need a > > >card that either has a driver that comes with Red Hat Linux 7.1 or is easy > > >to install and needs minimal tweaks to the driver. I am currently > > >considering cards from 3Com (Alteon), Broadcom, Intel, and SysKonnect. > > > > > >Thanks for your help, > > > > > >Abe Hayhurst > > > > > >- > > >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/ > > > > > > > > > > - > > 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/ > - > 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/ - 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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