I'm not the best with these bit/byte problems so I might be wrong, but.....
A PCI bus can pass 1056 bits a second (32 bit, 33 mhz) tcp/ip over head is somewhere around %20 (1056 * .8 = 844.8) What can you reasonably expect a pci gigabit card to give you for through put? PCI Buses are generally shared (save high end server boards) right? On top of that, if hdparm says timed disk writes are around 40MB, what could you see for sustained download speeds? Maybe a static cached webpage could saturate a gig connection, sustained 5 gig http download couldn't right? Anyone have real world answers for that stuff? Patrick ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Buskey Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 12:36 PM To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Subject: Recommended PCI gigabit ethernet card? I have a cheap gigabit nic ($20) in my system and suspect it is slowing down throughput so I'd like to upgrade it. I did the google linux thing. Half were error reports, half were from < 2004, half were sales "reviews", etc (yeah, that > 100%). The Linux HOWTOs are 2004 and earlier so there's barely a mention of gigabit networking. It needs to be PCI I'm running Fedora with Fedora kernels and don't want to compile drivers. What do people use, see as fast/compatible? _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
