Greetings ... I hate to ask these questions, but I dought I will get a straight answer from an Salesmen ... I am looking at putting gigabit in as a back bone for a few Linux servers, but I have used an Accton Gigabit ethernet card with RedHat 8.0/9 and found it a little unstable ... do and RedHat users have a suggestion on a good, but not expensive Gigabit card, basicly for a Samba server(s). Thanks Mailed Lee
"C.Lee Taylor" wrote:> > Greetings ... > > I hate to ask these questions, but I dought I will get a straight > answer from an Salesmen ... > > I am looking at putting gigabit in as a back bone for a few Linux > servers, but I have used an Accton Gigabit ethernet card with RedHat > 8.0/9 and found it a little unstable ... do and RedHat users have a > suggestion on a good, but not expensive Gigabit card, basicly for a > Samba server(s). > > Thanks > Mailed > Lee > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instrWell, I may be a tad biased, but you can't go wrong with an Intel Gigabit card. If yu can find an (older) 3Com card, that will work as well. Joe -- #----------------------------------------------------------# # Penguinix Consulting # #----------------------------------------------------------# # Software development, QA and testing. # # Linux support and training. # # "Don't fear the penguin!" # #----------------------------------------------------------# # Registered Linux user: #309247 http://counter.li.org # #----------------------------------------------------------#
intel pro / 1000 MT DUAL or SINGLE i've three ports (SINGLE+DUAL) without any problem on the same server. how much is expensive/cheap? depends on your budget :=) redhat 9.0 + samba 3.0.0 working for 200 user on 24 computers (w2k) -- Ing. Romy Perez Moreno e-mail: romy@fenix.uam.mx, romy@correo.azc.uam.mx http://fenix.uam.mx/romy tel: 5318 9067 / 5382-7157
Some Linux distro's have problems with some of the gig NIC chipsets. The Netgear GA302T will cause a Red Hat (8 in my case) system to halt randomly. However the Netgear GA622T works well and is stable. Regards Alan -----Original Message----- From: samba-bounces+samba=brightheadtechnology.com@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces+samba=brightheadtechnology.com@lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of C.Lee Taylor Sent: 28 November 2003 19:55 To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] [OT] Good Gigabit Ethernet Card ... Greetings ... I hate to ask these questions, but I dought I will get a straight answer from an Salesmen ... I am looking at putting gigabit in as a back bone for a few Linux servers, but I have used an Accton Gigabit ethernet card with RedHat 8.0/9 and found it a little unstable ... do and RedHat users have a suggestion on a good, but not expensive Gigabit card, basicly for a Samba server(s). Thanks Mailed Lee -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, C.Lee Taylor wrote:> Greetings ... > > I hate to ask these questions, but I dought I will get a straight > answer from an Salesmen ... > > I am looking at putting gigabit in as a back bone for a few Linux > servers, but I have used an Accton Gigabit ethernet card with RedHat > 8.0/9 and found it a little unstable ... do and RedHat users have a > suggestion on a good, but not expensive Gigabit card, basicly for a > Samba server(s).I use Intel Gigabit cards without any problems. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: jht@samba.org
I'm doing well with the Linksys 32-bit "instant gigabit" card. .It's cheap -- like $ 70 US -- and based on a National Semiconductor Chip for which drivers are included in at least RedHat 9 and Mandrake 9.2. My only complaint is that the Linux drivers don't seem to support Jumbo Frames (although the card supports them under Windows). Linux support for Jumbo Frames was apparently turned off intentionally in the drivers due to stability problems. I have NOT had good luck with a SysKonnect 9821 64-bit card in a 32-bit slot -- although the card is supposed to be compatible with 32-bit PCI slots. Performance data that I've seen show the card achieving 80 MB+/sec on all Linux systems in a 64-bit slot and using Jumbo Frames. But I get segmentation faults when I'm using my firewire drives at the same time. Could be a motherboard issue and not an issue with the SysKonnect Gigabit card. I had switched to SysKonnect because the company claims to heavily support Linux, and its own Linux drivers support Jumbo Frames. When I put the Linksys card back into my Mandrake 9.2 system, all was well again. Andy Liebman In a message dated 11/28/2003 2:56:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, leet@leenx.co.za writes: Greetings ... I hate to ask these questions, but I dought I will get a straight answer from an Salesmen ... I am looking at putting gigabit in as a back bone for a few Linux servers, but I have used an Accton Gigabit ethernet card with RedHat 8.0/9 and found it a little unstable ... do and RedHat users have a suggestion on a good, but not expensive Gigabit card, basicly for a Samba server(s). Thanks Mailed Lee