<quote who="Nicholas Lawrence">
> 1. An Asus board with an onboard Realtek 8139.
> 2. An Aopen board with an onboard Intel 82559.
Onboard? Run away, run away!
I highly recommend having as much off the motherboard as you can - they
always come back to bite later anyway. A network interface is less of a
problem than a sound card or whatever, but it's always good to be able to
pull out a problem. :)
> I noted in my research that the Realtek is not rated very highly
> for performance but appears well-supported.
Excellent summary. :)
> The Intel 82559 is supposed to be very good for both speed and
> support but a few notes in linux-kernel August last year suggested
> problems with 2.4pre recognising onboard variants. There didn't
> seem to be any followup after that.
That's fixed in Donald Becker's drivers that you can find on scyld.com, only
for 2.2 kernels (which you ought to be running on a machine such as this).
We run one of these in our web server -> no problems so far. The big problem
when I installed it was having it on a shared PCI slot. Bad.
> 1. Is anyone having problems with 1 or 2 8139 cards in the same
> machine?
No, they seem to be okay.
> 2. The Intel seems to be a very popular choice - would it be worth
> investing in (I know worth is relative but the difference is 128meg
> of ram <g>).
It sounds like you're overspeccing your firewall... So, probably not worth
it when you can run it acceptably on something (quite a bit) less expensive.
- Jeff
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