Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <> | Subject | Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5 | Date | Thu, 4 Oct 2001 07:41:18 +0000 (UTC) |
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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> writes:
>jamal wrote: >> >> I think you can save yourself a lot of pain today by going to a "better >> driver"/hardware. Switch to a tulip based board; in particular one which >> is based on the 21143 chipset. Compile in hardware traffic control and >> save yourself some pain.
>The tulip driver only started working for my DLINK 4-port NIC >after about 2.4.8, and last I checked the ZYNX 4-port still refuses >to work, so I wouldn't consider it a paradigm of >stability and grace quite yet. Regardless of that, it is often >impossible to trade NICS (think built-in 1U servers), and claiming >to only work correctly on certain hardware (and potentially lock up >hard on other hardware) is a pretty sorry state of affairs...
Does it finally do speed and duplex auto negotiation with Cisco Catalyst Switches? Something I never ever got to work with various 2.0 and 2.2 drivers, mode settings, Catalyst settings, IOS versions and almost anything else that I ever tried.
Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- Geschaeftsfuehrer INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH hps@intermeta.de
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