[Cialug] best supported/performing Ethernet adapter?

[Nathan C. Smith]

OK, I stopped by Dave's shop over the lunch hour and got a 100 m/bit Intel
card.  Hopefully I can fit it in to get it installed and cranking away
tonight.  <plug>Thanks Dave and Dave's shop!</plug>

-Nate

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave J. Hala Jr. [mailto:dave at 58ghz.net] 
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:37 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] best supported/performing Ethernet adapter?



I bought my intel gb cards new for $25.00 a piece. Search froogle with the
following criteria:

intel 100/1000 ethernet nic


On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 11:26, David Champion wrote:
> Realtek chips aren't as bad as they used to be... but I would get
> something better for a server.
> 
> I haven't seen anything recently, but the Netgear Gigabit-over-copper
> cards were supposed to be about the fastest available, and only cost 
> about $30.
> 
> The only "name brand" cards I really don't like are 3com... mostly
> because of the crappy and over priced later generation 3c905 cards. The 
> 3c595 cards were rock-solid, after that they went down hill.
> 
> -dc
> 
> Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> > Realtek does OK until you pound on it with something like video+file 
> > transfers.
> >  
> > Does Intel write/contribute their own Linux driver?
> >  
> >  
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John.Lengeling at radisys.com [mailto:John.Lengeling at radisys.com]
> > Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:17 AM
> > To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> > Subject: Re: [Cialug] best supported/performing Ethernet adapter?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > cialug-bounces at cialug.org wrote on 06/11/2005 10:11:46 PM:
> > 
> > 
> >>
> >>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 packets.
> 
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