Justin The Cynical wrote: > I have an older system running LFS 6.1 (currently using kernel 2.6.16.32 > P4), and I am finding the on-board SiS900 network chip to be lacking. > > I have sitting around in my parts collection an HP J3171-60011 PCI LAN > 10/100TX card (Intel 82557 based) and a 3Com 3C905-TX. > > I've looked around, and I can't seem to find any performance information > on these two cards. Both are well supported, but which one would be the > better choice to use?
Tests at the Urals State University show that on "Pentium MMX 166 MHz with 128 MB of RAM" machines, "3COM 3C905B" and "Intel Pro 100" cards behave approximately identically, and are both slower than a cheap Realtek 8139 card. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
