> Once again, 3Com has made changes to the 3C905<xyz> card which broke the
> linux driver (latest patches applied), resulting in 500MHz PIII Dell
> Dimension systems which are functionally considerably slower than a bunch
> of older PII 233's with older ethernet cards. *sigh*
>
> I'm at the point where I'm ready to take delivery on systems with no
> ethernet card and just buy one off the shelf to put in myself. The 3Com
> cards suck, period.
>
> Has anyone seen any stats or comparisons which rate 100Mb ethernet cards
> (reliability, speed, and cost in that order of importance) when used
> specifically in linux systems?
just third hand, someone mentioned a group writing software to run on a
large distributed system that rated several network cards.
For high sustained traffic (larger packets, I believe they said), the
Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 cards topped their list. For smaller packet
sizes they favored the Tulip based cards (I believe Kingston and one other
brand was mentioned).
sorry I don't have a reference handy
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