"Roisman, Dani" wrote:
>
> Can anyone direct me to a currently manufactured product that uses the real
> Digital chipset? I have had amazing experience with them, on a PII-266
> firewall with a 2.0.35 kernel, at about 15,000 pps (input plus output),
> running ipfwadm, I am able to push 92-95 Mbit/s.
>
> About a year ago, I bought some Netgear 310TX cards, which had the real DEC
> chipset. Recently, I bought a few more, but they have the Lite-On chipset,
> and don't function as well with the stock Tulip driver (exhibiting some
> packet loss under load). NetGear recommended that I use their modified
> tulip driver that is included on their driver floppy, but I don't feel
> comfortable doing that.
According to Donald's tulip page
(http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html), Netgear uses 21140-based
chips in their cards. Since I own a few NetGear FA310TX's and they all
use the old PNIC chip, it would tend to imply that you are referring to
a very old and possibly unavailable card...
Jeff
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Building 1024 | it is the safest thing we have.
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