Re: OT: Which Gigabit ethernet card?

Wes Felter
2002-12-20T20:07:33Z

On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 12:48, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 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)

Good luck buying one of those for under $100, if you can find one at
all.

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