* Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-10 21:49]: > On May 10, 2005, at 1:28 PM, Tony Del Porto wrote: > > >On May 10, 2005, at 9:35 AM, Alen Capalik wrote: > > > >>Very good card and cheap too > >> > >>Soekris 4-port 10/100 > > > >I've had problems with the Soekris card and large numbers of clients > >(200-300 active): > > The lan1641 (and lan1621) by Soekris both use the sis chips. I've > experienced a number of problems with the sis cards (or sis driver) > under heavy throughput. In particular, heavy pfsync + CARP usage does > not seem to play well with them.
overgeneralizations are as usual bad. the sis driver supports quite some different chips. _some_ have issues. _some_. not all. the soekris 4port card wim sent me for testing did not show any bad behaviour, and I did stress it. While I did not necessarily ran into all bugs it might have (or might not have!), it did perform pretty well. -- BS Web Services, http://www.bsws.de/ OpenBSD-based Webhosting, Mail Services, Managed Servers, ... Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
