On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 05:15:20PM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 10:48:21PM +0000, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > > I've now got a pair of realtek's which are a damn site better, but I still > > have problems with enbd under high load, which I suspect are attributed to > > them. Plus when one machine is under high load, an ssh can take up to 15 > > seconds to connect. > > The realtek supposedly has a really wonky and expensive DMA scheme > that makes performance similar to a PIO card. Tulip-based cards are > very cheap as well, and may serve about as well as the 3Com and Intel > cards.
Thanks for that, I didn't know that you could get cheap Tulips. Since some manufacturers arn't too upfront about chipsets, do you know any particular makes/models that are tulip chipsets? Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: Too much radiation coming from the soil.
