From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DtF8S-00045I-Fr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 01:37:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6F1ZT1c006474; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 01:35:29 GMT Received: from mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.25]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6F1U7Iw006598 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 01:30:08 GMT Received: (qmail 1265 invoked from network); 15 Jul 2005 01:30:18 -0000 Received: from dsl027-182-150.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO chi.speakeasy.net) (rmsand@[216.27.182.150]) (envelope-sender ) by mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 15 Jul 2005 01:30:17 -0000 Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:30:18 -0700 From: Bob Sanders To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended GB NIC Message-ID: <20050714183018.50d72570@chi.speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <42D70D10.7070601@cmsrtp.com> References: <42D70D10.7070601@cmsrtp.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4a (GTK+ 1.2.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 45ec1f6d-2f7f-4a81-9350-f8f1cfc17758 X-Archives-Hash: d6a7cce57738edffa2d610a39317164e On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:10:40 -0500 Michael Madden wrote: > We have several Dell Precision workstations (530, 610, > and 620 models) with 3Com 3c905 10/100 NICs. We'd like > to upgrade the NICs to GB. Which GB PCI card would you > recommend to work with Gentoo 2005.0 running Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r4? > Intel, Broadcom, 3Com? > Yes. They all work. The Broadcom Tigon3 will generally give higher sustained throughput. While I don't know, nor care about, the specific Dell models, if you don't have a 64-bit 66 MHz slot for the GigE board, heavy use of the net port will cause problems. The typical 32-bit 33 MHz bus will saturate with network transactions. And that bus saturation can cause...umm...interesting system behavior. Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list