On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:10:40 -0500
Michael Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We have several Dell Precision workstations (530, 610,
and 620 models) with 3Com 3c905 10/100 NICs. We'd like
to upgrade the NICs to GB. Which GB PCI card would you
recommend to work with Gentoo 2005.0 running Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r4?
Intel, Broadcom, 3Com?
Yes. They all work. The Broadcom Tigon3 will generally give higher
sustained throughput.
While I don't know, nor care about, the specific Dell models, if you don't have
a 64-bit 66 MHz slot for the GigE board, heavy use of the net port will cause
problems. The typical 32-bit 33 MHz bus will saturate with network
transactions.
And that bus saturation can cause...umm...interesting system behavior.
Bob
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