Re: Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters

Richard Gooch
2002-03-11T00:56:13Z

David S. Miller writes:
> From: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 16:33:39 +0100
>
> You can buy bcm57xx based boards, where the chipset is nice but the driver
> not really nice yet.
>
> My tg3 driver sucks then right? Could you send me a bug report?
>
> You can buy syskonnect sk98 boards, which definitely have a good chipset -
> but the driver doesn't support the tcp transmit zerocopy path yet. I've
> tried to put some pressure on SysKonnect about this - but they seem a bit
> 'slow'.
>
> The hardware is not capable of doing it, due to bugs in the hw
> checksum implementation of the sk98 chipset. They aren't being
> "slow" they just can't possibly implement it for you.

So what is currently the best combination of gige card/driver/cost?
What do you recommend to the budget-conscious?

Regards,

Richard....
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