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