From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 00:38:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 00:38:28 -0400 Received: from cm038.32.234.24.lvcm.com ([24.234.32.38]:11398 "EHLO osafo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 00:38:22 -0400 Message-ID: <3BAC153A.4060700@osafo.com> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 21:36:10 -0700 From: Colin Frank User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Abe Hayhurst Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Best gigabit card for linux In-Reply-To: <001a01c13fed$ef3806f0$6c01a8c0@ABEPC> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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/ > >