Re: Best gigabit card for linux

[Seth Goldberg <bergsoft@home.com>]

Hi,

   I ordered 2 NSC-based giga ethernet cards (copper) and I was able to
get 54.4 Megabytes/s sustained (between an amd athlon 1200 MHz and an
athlon 1000 MHz) on kernel v2.4.5.  

  Since these card cost $45 each, i HIGHLY recommend them.  The actualy
manufacturer is a company called Cameo in Taiwan.

 --Seth


Colin Frank wrote:
> 
> 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
> >
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