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Jacob Joseph wrote: [Tue Sep 23 2003, 03:14:08AM EDT] |
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> Hi. I'm planning to upgrade a few alpha machines to gigabit |
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> networking(along with the rest of our computational machines) and |
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> wanted to get any stories of success/failure with respect to specific |
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> cards? I've had good luck with intel cards and the e1000 driver on |
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> x86 machines? What cards do you use? |
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I have a personal bias toward the Broadcom 5703-based adapters, but |
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that's because I wrote the Tru64 driver for them. ;-) I've heard that |
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the Linux drivers for those adapters aren't very good, but that's |
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definitely second-hand knowledge. |
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I haven't personally used Gigabit under Linux so let us know what you |
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choose and how things work! |
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Aron |
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