On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 at 20:38:42 EST Kyle Holder wrote:
> Here's my setup. > > P166/32 RAM > Dachstein (Kernel 2.2.19-3-LEAF) > Eth0: Intel PRO/100+ Management (PCI) > Eth1: 3COM 3C509B-TPO (ISA) On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 23:25:12 -0400 Karl Poglitsch wrote: > FYI - I posted about 3 months back witn a problem I had with extreme > slowdown when I was going through the Dachstein firewall. I've since been > able to figure out it was the 3Com cards I was using. I was using PCI 3C905 > cards. Switched out to Intel cards and I'm running full speed, NO other > changes except for the required modules for the right NIC cards. I'm > staying away from 3Com cards from now on. I use 3c509's (same as Kyle) in almost all the firewalls I build. The first thing I do to every one is run the 3c5x9cfg.exe utility to manually set the I/O ports and IRQs to non-conflicting values. I haven't had a single problem with any of them (with over 20 3c509s currently in service). While I don't know much about the 905s or the quality of the linux drivers for them, it seems a bit unfair to give all 3com cards a bad wrap without identifying the root cause of the problem you were experiencing. Just my $0.02 or less. --Brad ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
