Re: Ethernet card recommendations?
At 02:43 PM 4/8/00 -0400, LeighK wrote: I don't know if you noticed this, but the transfer problems seemed to be one-way, outgoing. Incoming transfers occured at the proper speed, but outgoing was extremely slow. As far as I can remember, it was slow both ways. Uploading to server and downloading from server. I guess no more EtherEZ's for us. :) Unless a special new driver comes out for it. I was running the default driver, out-of-the-box from the install routine. +---+ |-=I T ' S P R I N C I P L E T H A T C O U N T S=- | |=- -=ALAN KEYES FOR PRESIDENT=- -=| | Balanced Budgets Personal Freedoms Morality Lower Tax | |=-- http://www.Keyes2000.com. --=| ++
Re: Ethernet card recommendations?
Speaking of the SMC cards, I ran SMC EtherEZ's 10BaseT on ISA and got some weird behaviour from time to time. When I first set it up, things were great. Getting 7Mbps ftp transfers. But this began to decline and then finally flucuate. Before I turned off the network it was varying from 2-4Mbps. But if you want serious performance go with gigabit over fiber. +---+ |-=I T ' S P R I N C I P L E T H A T C O U N T S=- | |=- -=ALAN KEYES FOR PRESIDENT=- -=| | Balanced Budgets Personal Freedoms Morality Lower Tax | |=-- http://www.Keyes2000.com. --=| ++
Re: Ethernet card recommendations?
On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Chris Wagner wrote: Speaking of the SMC cards, I ran SMC EtherEZ's 10BaseT on ISA and got some weird behaviour from time to time. When I first set it up, things were great. Getting 7Mbps ftp transfers. But this began to decline and then finally flucuate. Before I turned off the network it was varying from 2-4Mbps. Wow, I thought we were the only ones who experienced that problem. I had assumed it was a bad card because we only had 2, one of which just stopped working one day, and the other started to have the problem you describe. That was about a year or so ago, maybe a little longer. Unfortunately, I can't say if the card did it when initially used in the machine, as it was built and in use before I started working here. I had tried using a different kernel, or different driver (at first, that seemed to have made a difference, I think we used the 8309 driver originally and switched to a different driver, don't remember offhand because it was a while ago, but after a while the same problem showed itself). We eventually shelved the card and just replaced it with a 3com Vortex and have been trouble-free ever since. I don't know if you noticed this, but the transfer problems seemed to be one-way, outgoing. Incoming transfers occured at the proper speed, but outgoing was extremely slow. -Leigh --- Leigh Koven CyberComm Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cybercomm.net/ http://www.thegovernment.net/(732) 818- Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end - Semisonic
Re: Ethernet card recommendations?
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Kevin Blackham wrote: I do _not_ recommend the Intel EtherExpress 100 line. (82557, 558, 559 chip) They have a receiver lockup bug which if you are pushing a lot of traffic, will definitely affect you. We had two EEPro100s in our mail server (one for smtp/pop/imap, one for nfs traffic). There was a consistent problem with blocked processes caused by nfs traffic backing up. There are now newer drivers provided by Intel, and patches available which seem to take care of the problem. We swapped them out for some Netgear FA 310tx, $25. Tulip chipset. They've been running great for a long time now. I've heard that newer productions of this model do not have the Tulip chip anymore. Check for that. I don't think you can get the DEC Tulip chips anymore from Netgear. I think they switched completely over to the LiteOn clone. My own informal suggestion has been either the Netgear DECchip cards, or D-Link VIA-rhine cards (don't remember the part #, but it's the 10/100 card)
Re: Ethernet card recommendations?
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 06:55:13PM +1000, Neale Banks wrote: Greetings all, Any recommendations on a *reliable* ethernet card to spec for a Debian (potato) box to be deployed as a dedicated mail exchanger? Not thinking so much of the fastest, as something that will reliably pump data. 10/100, Full-duplex, PCI prefered (what else would you use in a serious server?). Intel EEPro100. Get the latest driver from the intel web site. Tim -- Tim Sailer (at home) Coastal Internet, Inc. Network and Systems Operations PO Box 671 http://www.buoy.comRidge, NY 11961 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED](631) 476-3031
Re: Ethernet card recommendations?
10/100, Full-duplex, PCI prefered (what else would you use in a serious server?). maybe some kind of SUNs or DECs 100 NICs :) but they are very expensive. i'm using SMC1211TX, it's based on RTL8139 chipset and working fine in my 100mbit Cisco network but when the default ethernet driver (by Donald Becker) is loaded then both the 10mbit and 100mbit LED is turned permanently on, but communicating at 100mbit fullduplex. so, SMC1211TX is a good choice for you! NP. --- The NEPTUN has you. 1999(c) 2000
Re: Ethernet card recommendations?
I am getting extremely reliable performance with an Intel Etherexpress Pro 10/100 Driver in kernel (2.0.36) worked straight off. No issues in over an year. And cost at that time was under USD30. -Original Message- From: Neale Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org debian-isp@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, April 06, 2000 2:28 PM Subject: Ethernet card recommendations? Greetings all, Any recommendations on a *reliable* ethernet card to spec for a Debian (potato) box to be deployed as a dedicated mail exchanger? Not thinking so much of the fastest, as something that will reliably pump data. 10/100, Full-duplex, PCI prefered (what else would you use in a serious server?). Comments of revisions of drivers welcome. Thanks, Neale. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ethernet card recommendations?
Definately Intel Etherxpress. We are running a lot of serious servers up to 2000km from base so we need reliable gear. The module has built diags when the module loads at boot. Ridgey
Re: Ethernet card recommendations?
I do _not_ recommend the Intel EtherExpress 100 line. (82557, 558, 559 chip) They have a receiver lockup bug which if you are pushing a lot of traffic, will definitely affect you. We had two EEPro100s in our mail server (one for smtp/pop/imap, one for nfs traffic). There was a consistent problem with blocked processes caused by nfs traffic backing up. There are now newer drivers provided by Intel, and patches available which seem to take care of the problem. We swapped them out for some Netgear FA 310tx, $25. Tulip chipset. They've been running great for a long time now. I've heard that newer productions of this model do not have the Tulip chip anymore. Check for that. -- Kevin Blackham 801-539-0852 Senior Tech, XMission Internet 877-XMISSION [EMAIL PROTECTED]877-964-7746 http://www.xmission.com/help On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 06:55:13PM +1000, Neale Banks wrote: Greetings all, Any recommendations on a *reliable* ethernet card to spec for a Debian (potato) box to be deployed as a dedicated mail exchanger? Not thinking so much of the fastest, as something that will reliably pump data. 10/100, Full-duplex, PCI prefered (what else would you use in a serious server?). Comments of revisions of drivers welcome. Thanks, Neale. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ethernet card recommendations?
I second this. Been using them at full blast for at least 8 months and not one problem. Larry At 11:14 AM 4/5/00 +0200, you wrote: 10/100, Full-duplex, PCI prefered (what else would you use in a serious server?). maybe some kind of SUNs or DECs 100 NICs :) but they are very expensive. i'm using SMC1211TX, it's based on RTL8139 chipset and working fine in my 100mbit Cisco network but when the default ethernet driver (by Donald Becker) is loaded then both the 10mbit and 100mbit LED is turned permanently on, but communicating at 100mbit fullduplex. so, SMC1211TX is a good choice for you! NP. --- The NEPTUN has you. 1999(c)2000 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ethernet card recommendations?
I've tried EtherExpress (under kernel 2.2.x) and 3c905B, and with the current krenel drivers bot were working bad under high machine load.Then I switched to the driver from 3com and I haven't got a problem ever since. The biggest problem are the drivers - If you find good one, almost any card will work good...There were some good discussions on linux-kernel, you can find 'coverage' at kernel traffic ( kt.linuxcare.com)
