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On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:10:40 -0500 |
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Michael Madden <madden@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> We have several Dell Precision workstations (530, 610, |
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> and 620 models) with 3Com 3c905 10/100 NICs. We'd like |
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> to upgrade the NICs to GB. Which GB PCI card would you |
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> recommend to work with Gentoo 2005.0 running Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r4? |
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> Intel, Broadcom, 3Com? |
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Yes. They all work. The Broadcom Tigon3 will generally give higher |
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sustained throughput. |
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While I don't know, nor care about, the specific Dell models, if you don't have |
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a 64-bit 66 MHz slot for the GigE board, heavy use of the net port will cause |
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problems. The typical 32-bit 33 MHz bus will saturate with network transactions. |
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And that bus saturation can cause...umm...interesting system behavior. |
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Bob |
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