Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 21 Sep 2001 21:36:10 -0700 | From | Colin Frank <> | Subject | Re: Best gigabit card for linux |
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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/ > >
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