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Which fast ethernet card to get?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Bennett)
Tue Apr 25 04:23:16 1995
From: Geoffrey Bennett <geoffrey@tafe.sa.edu.au>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 15:46:46 +0930 (CST)
'lo all...
I'm looking around at the moment for a fast ethernet card, either ISA
or PCI. Ones that are readily available here are:
SMC PCI Combo (EtherPower I think)
SMC Ultra (ISA)
3Com Etherlink III (I thought this was ISA but the HOWTO only
mentions an EISA Etherlink III)
D-Link PCI (I presume this is the DE-530 from reading the HOWTO)
Can someone supply some figures on the performance of these cards?
I've got 3 computers here, two with WD 80x3 card, and one with an
Ultra, so I can't really do any measurements with the Ultra.
Will there be any great advantage in going for a PCI card instead of
the Ultra? If the ISA bus b/w is greater than ethernet then a better/
faster card will reduce the cpu load, and not increase network
performance?
The EtherPower card is still an alpha driver from the looks of it.
I presume it would be a bad idea to get this card for a mission
critical application?
The HOWTO says that nobody has verified that the DE-530 works as yet.
Is this still the case? I'll rule this card out if so :).
The computer that this card is for will be used as a http server on a
10Mb WAN, so high transmit performance is a must.
The computer will have a NCR 53c810 PCI SCSI card in it. I'm not up
on the vagaries of PCI, so if anyone knows of any potential conflicts
between PCI cards, then could they tell me about them please.
Thanks in advance for any information,
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