[Samba] [OT] Good Gigabit Ethernet Card ...

AndyLiebman at aol.com AndyLiebman at aol.com
Sat Nov 29 00:59:45 GMT 2003


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 at 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



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