Can anyone recommend off-the-shelf NICS that perform pretty well with high amounts (10-20mbits) of traffic? Thanks _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
On Tue, 20 May 2003 14:50:55 -0400 "Harkisoon Sharan (CCI-Gainesville)" <Sharan.Harkisoon@cox.com> wrote: : Can anyone recommend off-the-shelf NICS that perform pretty well with high amounts : (10-20mbits) of traffic? Ehm... ;))) With such a "high" ammount you can take almost any off-the-shelf NIC, eg. even Realtek 8139 based cards. But I''d recommend 3Com - EtherLink XL 3c900 or 3c905, 3c540/3c900/3c905/3c980/3c575/3c656, 3c905, or Intel EtherExpressPro/100, if you can afford''em, of course. They are pretty stable and I''m quite happy with their performance. -- _____________________________________________________________ Best regards, Nickola
Yes, any of the Intel Pro 100 cards with a 82557-82559 chipsets are great. You can usually get use lots of them off eBay for $10.00 or so. You can also buy them in bulk new, for a reasonable price. They are my favorite, and I avoid anything else. On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 14:50, Harkisoon Sharan (CCI-Gainesville) wrote:> Can anyone recommend off-the-shelf NICS that perform pretty well with high amounts (10-20mbits) of traffic? > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/-- Sincerely, William L. Thomson Jr. Support Group Obsidian-Studios, Inc. 3548 Jamestown Ln. Jacksonville, FL 32223 Phone/Fax 904.260.2445 http://www.obsidian-studios.com _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 15:38, Nickola Kolev wrote:> > With such a "high" ammount you can take almost any off-the-shelf NIC, eg. even > Realtek 8139 based cards. But I''d recommend 3Com - EtherLink XL 3c900 or 3c905, > 3c540/3c900/3c905/3c980/3c575/3c656, 3c905, or Intel EtherExpressPro/100, if > you can afford''em, of course. They are pretty stable and I''m quite happy with > their performance.I am not a fan of 3com cards any more. I used to have many of them until I noticed under certain circumstances if a cable came unplugged my nic would not be available again until a reboot. Which is very odd, since normally you can do many things without having to reboot. Stop start the interface. Load unload the driver. I had problems with them so I avoid them now. Not to mention I never got the type of through put with 3com nics as I do with Intel Pro 100 nics. Especially when using the e100 driver directly from Intel. They are always updating it and releasing new versions. The e100 that comes with most kernels, is not always the most up2date version of the driver. -- Sincerely, William L. Thomson Jr. Support Group Obsidian-Studios, Inc. 3548 Jamestown Ln. Jacksonville, FL 32223 Phone/Fax 904.260.2445 http://www.obsidian-studios.com _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
Yeah 3C905 rox man.
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Blagoy Genadiev.
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WizCom AG