[Cialug] best supported/performing Ethernet adapter?

[Dave Weis]

Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> I asked based on the rumors about the quality of their compiler -  I 
> won't be afraid of their drivers.
> I have a mini-itx machine at home (RHINE Ethernet Chip) with a lot of 
> disk space on it.  I was copying video to it at the same time I was 
> playing video from it and it started to balk after a couple hours.  It 
> does fine most of the time, but apparently sometimes, I ask too much of it.

I have 6-10 eepro100 cards here, lightly used.
dave

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> *From:* John.Lengeling at radisys.com [mailto:John.Lengeling at radisys.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, June 13, 2005 10:40 AM
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> *Subject:* RE: [Cialug] best supported/performing Ethernet adapter?
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> I wouldn't put Realtek in a server, but for a home machine, it is just 
> fine and very cheap.
> 
> Yes Intel writes their own driver.  You can get the source code from 
> their website.  I was talking with one of our engineers and he is very 
> impressed with the Intel driver.  The common code is clearly separated 
> from the OS specific code so porting the driver to new OSs is very easy.
> 
> johnl
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> *"Nathan C. Smith" <smith at ipmvs.com>*
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> Realtek does OK until you pound on it with something like video+file 
> transfers.
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> Does Intel write/contribute their own Linux driver?
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> cialug-bounces at cialug.org wrote on 06/11/2005 10:11:46 PM:
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>  > I think it is a true statement that not all Ethernet cards and their 
> drivers
>  > are equal.  My sense is that the inexpensive realtek and VINE chips/cards
>  > depend more on well-written drivers than intelligence built into the
>  > chips/cards.  Can anyone recommend a well-performing 100 megabit card 
> with
>  > good Linux support?  Are 3Com and Intel cards good choices?
> 
> Intel seems to be the best for:
> 
> - performance
> - multiple OS support
> - leading edge features like jumbo packet, VLAN, QOS
> 
> We use a lot of their 1000G dual fiber and dual copper server cards with 
> Linux.  They also seem to regularly update their driver several times 
> per year for bug fixes and improvements.
> 
> You get what you pay for...all will pass ethernet packets around, but 
> you pay more money to get higher performance, better drivers, leading 
> edge features.  I use Realteks at home since I need some to just pass 
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