Re: OT: Which Gigabit ethernet card?

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

Jurgen Kramer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I know this is a bit OT but because here are the kernel driver hackers
> this might be the right place to ask.
> 
> I am looking for a couple of PCI Gigabit ethernet adapters to play
> around with SAN/NAS stuff like iSCSI and HyperSCSI and the like. There
> are variuos adapters around which work with Linux. My choice would be
> based on the following:
> 
> - Relatively cheap, around $100/EUR100
> - 32 bit/33MHz PCI compatible

Try the Netgear 302t, with the tg3 driver.

Works pretty good if you are not also running a bunch of other interfaces.
If you are running lots of interfaces, it will still work, but may spew
warning messages to the console (maybe it's been fixed...I saw this 1-2 months ago)

Ben


> - Low cpu usage
> - Busmaster DMA
> - Opensource Linux driver
> - zero-copy capable
> - etc.
> 
> What card is best? 3Com, Intel or National Semi based?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jurgen
> 
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