> I recently needed to acquire a large quantity (100s) of Tulip based
> Ethernet cards and was told by one of the vendors that Digital's chipset
> division (not sure if Intel or Compaq ended up with it) has EOLed (end of
> life-ed) the chip. Supposedly they will stop producing the chip sometime next
> summer. Does anybody know anything about this? Is there a replacement
> chipset/card family which is as inexpensive and as reliable under Linux?
They are in intel chip repertoire now.
Those chips have couple nasty problems which (surprise!)
with DEC Alpha processors cause us to do lots of memory-
to-memory data copying to get alignment optimized.
Therefore I am not that surprised to see it EOLed.
I might refer to intel PCI ethernet controller chips,
which too are available at fairly decent price. More
importantly, as intel's business is to make those chips,
we can get good programming documents for them. (Compare
with any manufacturer that has their own custom chips
at the card and won't yield documents...)
There are also other manufacturers whose primary mission
is to make chips, look around.
> Thanks,
> Bill Bogstad
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/Matti Aarnio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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