Re: 3c590 vs. tulip

2001-05-14 Thread Pekka Pietikainen
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 03:56:41PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 09:27:29AM -0400, Dan Mann wrote: > > I was just wondering if anybody had an idea which nic card might be a better > > choice for me; I have a pci 3c590 and a pci smc that uses the tulip driver. > > I don't have

Re: 3c590 vs. tulip

2001-05-14 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 05:09:52PM +0900, root wrote: > Basically, it appears that Don Becker praised the Tulip chipset the most. > How much important is "zero copy TX and hardware checksumming"? Zero copy TX is not that important yet except if you use samba or Tux or proftpd or anything else t

Re: 3c590 vs. tulip

2001-05-14 Thread root
Andi Kleen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > >On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 09:27:29AM -0400, Dan Mann wrote: >> I was just wondering if anybody had an idea which nic card might be a better >> choice for me; I have a pci 3c590 and a pci smc that uses the tulip driver. >> I don't have the card number for t

Mystery speed: Was Re: 3c590 vs. tulip

2001-05-11 Thread Dan Mann
TECTED]> To: "Dan Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 9:56 AM Subject: Re: 3c590 vs. tulip > > > faster machine it is much slower. Images take at least .5 to 1 second to > > load when they are stored locally. But over the ne

Re: 3c590 vs. tulip

2001-05-11 Thread Simon Kirby
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 09:27:29AM -0400, Dan Mann wrote: > The server has lots (ok, about 20,000 not counting the os itself) of medium > sized files on it, ranging in size from 60k to 40MB. When I run gqview > (image viewing program) on the client and point to a local directory that is > mapped

Re: 3c590 vs. tulip

2001-05-11 Thread Andi Kleen
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 09:27:29AM -0400, Dan Mann wrote: > I was just wondering if anybody had an idea which nic card might be a better > choice for me; I have a pci 3c590 and a pci smc that uses the tulip driver. > I don't have the card number for the smc with me handy, however I know both > car