Hi, I am currently in the process of choosing hardware for Debian GNU/Linux based router systems and am looking for Gigabit Ethernet interface cards (and appropriate mainboards).
I have the following requirements (in that order): 1. Good driver support in 2.4 kernels (it'd be ok if the kernel had to be patched, I'm familiar with that...) 2. Adapter should put as little load on CPU as possible. 3. Decent throughput with both large and small packets. I have only found one paper[1] by Paul Gray that compares Gigabit Ethernet hardware. However, the tests seem to focus on server applications. The numbers from the paper suggest to me that the SysKonnect cards would be a good choice, Intel based adapters, on the other hand, seem to be quite popular and meanwhile there are quite a few boards with (at least) one Intel Gigabit Ethernet chip onboard. Do you have any recommendations? -Hilko [1] http://www.cs.uni.edu/~gray/gig-over-copper/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]