Re: best NIC Speed + Gbit Q

2003-01-18 Thread ragnar
Hi, but i now change some Servers from SuSE to debian and now is the best time to get them a good nic. What about a Gigabit NIC ? I am setting up a new RAID file server that will see some traffic. My spec is to us a Gigabit NIC on a standard (32 bit) PCI card. I will be talking to 100Mbit

Re: best NIC Speed + Gbit Q

2003-01-18 Thread Jean-Francois Dive
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 07:04:25PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, but i now change some Servers from SuSE to debian and now is the best time to get them a good nic. What about a Gigabit NIC ? I am setting up a new RAID file server that will see some traffic. My spec is to us a

Re: best NIC Speed

2003-01-15 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Marco, Am 19:21 2003-01-09 +0100 hat Marco Kammerer geschrieben: ok :-) so what should i use? normally i use the 8139 becaue the work everywhere. In windows PCs i use DLink 530TX but i now change some Servers from SuSE to debian and now is the best time to get them a good nic. so if

Re: best NIC Speed

2003-01-15 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Shawn, Am 12:08 2003-01-09 -0600 hat Shawn Wallbridge geschrieben: Intel If you need 100Mb, then the Pro/100. If you need GigEcu then the Pro/1000MT. It's the only Ethernet card I will use. I only wish the Pro/100s (different from the Pro/100) was able to use the onboard IPSec chips

Re: best NIC Speed

2003-01-15 Thread jernej horvat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 14:20, Michelle Konzack wrote: I am use since 1988 only 3Com Cards and never had problems with it... Well eversince i use 3com i had problems with it (novell, os/2...). I doesn't work well under heavy load. Might be the

Re: best NIC Speed

2003-01-15 Thread Georg Lehner
I double checked with the sysadmin who had problems with 3Com Cards (once and then) spontaneously sending broadcast when the card turns old. He says, it is not Windows specific, but happens on Linux too and he once read some article where 3Com confirmed the problem - however: no reference given.

Re: best NIC Speed

2003-01-13 Thread Jean-Francois Dive
i agree, but not specially for the hardware quality of the Pro/X intel card serie, but for the quality of the driver which have been developed by intel and give out very good perf. The core issue is the driver and not the hardware in a lot of cases. Finally, the hardware offload for ipsec and

Re: best NIC Speed

2003-01-13 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 08:33, Jean-Francois Dive wrote: i agree, but not specially for the hardware quality of the Pro/X intel card serie, but for the quality of the driver which have been developed by intel and give out very good perf. The core issue is the driver and not the hardware in a

Re: best NIC Speed

2003-01-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 09:06:28AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 08:33, Jean-Francois Dive wrote: i agree, but not specially for the hardware quality of the Pro/X intel card serie, but for the quality of the driver which have been developed by intel and give out very

Re: best NIC Speed

2003-01-11 Thread Georg Lehner
Hello! at UNI/Managua we had various problems with 3Com network cards, which, when getting old (2 to 4 years I guess) start broadcasting spontaneously. Can anybody confirm the same behaviour.? Best Regards, Jorge-León -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: best NIC Speed

2003-01-10 Thread Sebastian
Am Don, 2003-01-09 um 19.21 schrieb Marco Kammerer: Sebastian wrote 2003-01-09 18.06 Am Don, 2003-01-09 um 18.06 schrieb Marco Kammerer: realtek (cheap) but normally cheap doenst mean to be slow. http://www.fefe.de/linuxeth/realtek.txt should answer your question. ok :-)

Re: best NIC Speed

2003-01-10 Thread Konstantin Kostadinov
Yes intel nic are the best for 10/100 based lan. Some of the Pro100+ Card also have the problem - if the network equipment (switch) is powered off and on the card is light-up on half-duplex. Some old intel nic-s have transeever bug but in new in 2.4 kernels this is fixed on software level.

Re: best NIC Speed

2003-01-10 Thread Tomasz Papszun
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 at 10:02:09 +0100, Sebastian wrote: Am Don, 2003-01-09 um 19.21 schrieb Marco Kammerer: Sebastian wrote 2003-01-09 18.06 Am Don, 2003-01-09 um 18.06 schrieb Marco Kammerer: realtek (cheap) but normally cheap doenst mean to be slow.

Re: best NIC Speed

2003-01-09 Thread Bao C. Ha
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 06:06:10PM +0100, Marco Kammerer wrote: Hi Marco, for an high performace server i need to know what nic (in your opinion) is a nic with an good trough put. right now i use 3com (not cheap) or realtek (cheap) Intel! Realtek drops a lot of packets under load. It

Re: best NIC Speed

2003-01-09 Thread Sebastian
Am Don, 2003-01-09 um 18.06 schrieb Marco Kammerer: realtek (cheap) but normally cheap doenst mean to be slow. http://www.fefe.de/linuxeth/realtek.txt should answer your question. Sebastian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: best NIC Speed

2003-01-09 Thread Shawn Wallbridge
Intel If you need 100Mb, then the Pro/100. If you need GigEcu then the Pro/1000MT. It's the only Ethernet card I will use. I only wish the Pro/100s (different from the Pro/100) was able to use the onboard IPSec chips in any OS besides Windows. shawn Hi for an high performace server i

Re: best NIC Speed

2003-01-09 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Anything with a true tulip chipset should work amazingly well for you, it is a proven chipset with a great track history. Hell, Donald Becker recommends it, thats enuf for me! On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:08:40PM -0600, Shawn Wallbridge wrote: Intel If you need 100Mb, then the Pro/100. If

Re: best NIC Speed

2003-01-09 Thread Marco Kammerer
Sebastian wrote 2003-01-09 18.06 Am Don, 2003-01-09 um 18.06 schrieb Marco Kammerer: realtek (cheap) but normally cheap doenst mean to be slow. http://www.fefe.de/linuxeth/realtek.txt should answer your question. ok :-) so what should i use? normally i use the 8139 becaue the work