From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:36:04 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Hardware Configuration Ideas Message-Id: <43039FB4.7060605@gmx.net> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Taylor, Grant schrieb: >>Yes, this is indeed a problem. Cards based on this chipset don't scale well. Try >>3coms or intels. If you're short on money, dlink dfe-530tx might do too. > > Um, the DFE-530TX+ is a (rebranded) Realtek8139 chipset card so I would > expect that the performance would be comparable to the Realtek cards. > I personally have not used them but I have heard wonderful things about > DEC Tulip cards. Some of the DFE-5..TX cards are indeed tulip based and have very good performance for a reasonable price. Unfortunately sources on the net disagree which cards have which chipset, so I recommend looking at them (I bought a new tulip based card here in Germany for 7 Euros). It pays to request a look at the chipsets of the cheaper cards, they might not even advertise their chipsets as tulip. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc