Re: Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters

Harald Welte
2002-03-10T15:35:41Z

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 03:12:18PM +0100, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> quick additional question concerning this topic:
> If I were free to buy any Gigabit Adapter, what would be the known-to-work
> choice (including existence of a GPL driver, of course)?

>From my point of view, there is no 'perfect' choice.

You can buy bcm57xx based boards, where the chipset is nice but the driver
not really nice yet.

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'.

You can buy natsemi boards, which is a more-or-less crappy chipset, but
there is a nice linux driver.

Summary:

Old acenic boards are still the best solution - but there are no longer
available for quite some time :(

> Regards,
> Stephan

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