Re: OT: Which Gigabit ethernet card?

Bill Davidsen
2002-12-20T18:42:21Z

On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Jurgen Kramer wrote:

> I know this is a bit OT but because here are the kernel driver hackers
> this might be the right place to ask.
>
> I am looking for a couple of PCI Gigabit ethernet adapters to play
> around with SAN/NAS stuff like iSCSI and HyperSCSI and the like. There
> are variuos adapters around which work with Linux. My choice would be
> based on the following:
>
> - Relatively cheap, around $100/EUR100
> - 32 bit/33MHz PCI compatible
> - Low cpu usage
> - Busmaster DMA
> - Opensource Linux driver
> - zero-copy capable
> - etc.
>
> What card is best? 3Com, Intel or National Semi based?

01:07.0 Ethernet controller: Alteon Networks Inc. AceNIC Gigabit Ethernet
(Fibre) (rev 01)

Works for me, and I have a fait amount of other traffic on other NICs.

00:02.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970
[PCnet LANCE] (rev 44)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557
[Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.