[LARTC] 1000Base-SX Gbit card recommendations

[LARTC] 1000Base-SX Gbit card recommendations

[Phil Doroff]

Hey all,

	I currently have a router on-location w/ a Gbit inet line attached to it.
It's a 3c996-SX.  Unfortunately, the driver support for this card is
absolutely terrible (looks like 3com is being 100% unhelpful about it).
Vendor-supplied hard-locks the box half the time on interface up, and the
latest-n-greatest kernel driver works okay, until I push about 90mbit
through it at which time it hard-locks the box right up.

	So, I figured since this list is the most likely to deal with people that
push a lot of packets through Linux, and possible some via fiber I'd like to
know if anyone has any recommendations on which NIC to buy to replace this
thing.

	If it matters, the router is running on a Tyan Thunder LE which is
Serverworks LE chipset.

Kind of sad a good card like the 3c996 is ruined due to poor driver support.
Sigh.

Phil Doroff
Five Elements, Inc.
phil21@five-elements.com
Phone:(763)595-9479 ICQ: 25285313

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Re: [LARTC] 1000Base-SX Gbit card recommendations

[Arthur van Leeuwen]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Phil Doroff wrote:

>  So, I figured since this list is the most likely to deal with people that
> push a lot of packets through Linux, and possible some via fiber I'd like to
> know if anyone has any recommendations on which NIC to buy to replace this
> thing.

I can heartily recommend the Netgear cards. We have one running, and the
system happily pumps over 240mbit/s sustained for a few hours.

Doei, Arthur.

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[Lars Roark]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Phil Doroff wrote:

>  So, I figured since this list is the most likely to deal with people that
> push a lot of packets through Linux, and possible some via fiber I'd like
to
> know if anyone has any recommendations on which NIC to buy to replace this
> thing.

We have been using the Intel E1000 card with Intels drivers for some time
with success.
(the router hw is a Dell 2500 dual CPU).

Regards,
Lars Roark



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Re: [LARTC] 1000Base-SX Gbit card recommendations

[Torge Szczepanek]

Am Die, 2002-10-22 um 20.47 schrieb Phil Doroff:

> 	So, I figured since this list is the most likely to deal with people that
> push a lot of packets through Linux, and possible some via fiber I'd like to
> know if anyone has any recommendations on which NIC to buy to replace this
> thing.

Intel e1000 using the e1000 driver from intel website. 

It works very nice on two servers which connect to a monitor port of a
chassis layer 3 router.

-- 
Torge Szczepanek <advrouting@szczepanek.de>

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