Re: 2.3.DEVEL2 now on the web site

> I started with a 3COM 3c-905B and then switched to an Intel EEPro.
> Both drivers (?) failed under the load.

I'm quite confident of the 3c905's under Linux 2.0.37. I haven't tried 2.2.x
yet, since Debian haven't put out a 2.2.x distribution yet.

3c590's - Vortex cards - completely die under load in Linux however (FreeBSD
has a workaround for a bug which Linux doesn't handle).

Also possible is that it was Linux dying under load - there are a lot of
things which need tuning if you have a lot of network sockets or route cache
entries, even more in 2.2.x than in 2.0.x. (I have a network scanner which
has a habit of killing people's boxes when they run it without appropriate
kernel tuning - but works in 2.0.36, 2.0.37 and 2.2.10 with appropriate
tuning of /proc variables - most of the other kernels it dies due to route
cache bugs.)

David.
Received on Tue Jul 29 2003 - 13:15:59 MDT