Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>
> > What kind of network card did you use? I (and many else) have had a
> > lot of trouble with Intel Etherexpress cards on Linux, where the
> > card dies under heavy load.
>
> Ironically, I've just switch a whole bunch of linux boxes to
> EtherExpress100 cards to achieve better reliability (over 3c905s in
> the past).
>
> -cw
Same here. We had to drop all our vortex cards under linux. The
EtherExpress100B's have performed superbly. The vortexes seem to
occasionally DMA more bytes than were actually asked for, overrunning
buffers. It's rare, but it crashes the system rather well.
D
Received on Tue Jul 29 2003 - 13:15:59 MDT
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