Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Gigabit Ethernet cards

2010-07-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 09/07/2010, at 1:31, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > On 07/08/2010 11:50 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: >> Since you said PCI, I'm assuming this isn't a PCI Express box we're talking >> about here, since that changes everything. A single lane PCI-e slot is >> capable of 250MB/s throughput, if the chipset c

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Gigabit Ethernet cards

2010-07-08 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, July 08, 2010 12:01:53 pm Marcus D. Leech wrote: > I have a PCIe x16 slot on the mobo, it's a GigaByte GA-880GM-UD2H, so I > guess what I really need is a > PCIe GiGE card. Broadcom is the biggest player in this market; eBay item # 150455393659 is one such example and only needs a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Gigabit Ethernet cards

2010-07-08 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 07/08/2010 11:50 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > Since you said PCI, I'm assuming this isn't a PCI Express box we're talking > about here, since that changes everything. A single lane PCI-e slot is > capable of 250MB/s throughput, if the chipset can keep up. Typical server > GigE cards for PCI-e ca

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Gigabit Ethernet cards

2010-07-08 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, July 02, 2010 04:40:42 pm Marcus D. Leech wrote: > I suspect that my GiGE NIC may be dropping packets. It's an > RTL8168d-type chip, according to "dmesg". > > Are there known-to-be-good-with-GnuRadio NICs for PCI with low-profile > brackets out there? This is for > a 2U server platf

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Gigabit Ethernet cards

2010-07-05 Thread Josh Blum
On 07/05/2010 07:33 AM, Manuel Fuhr wrote: On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 22:40, Marcus D. Leech wrote: I suspect that my GiGE NIC may be dropping packets. It's an RTL8168d-type chip, according to "dmesg". Are there known-to-be-good-with-GnuRadio NICs for PCI with low-profile brackets out there? Thi

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Gigabit Ethernet cards

2010-07-05 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 07/05/2010 12:33 PM, Josh Blum wrote: > I can think of a nicer way to print the error messages SX, but dropped > packets are a fact of life; especially running at 25 Msps. > > On my linux box, running benchmark at full rate, i usually see a few > dropped packets initially and at the end when it

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Gigabit Ethernet cards

2010-07-05 Thread Josh Blum
Manuel, On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Manuel Fuhr wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 22:40, Marcus D. Leech wrote: >> I suspect that my GiGE NIC may be dropping packets.  It's an >> RTL8168d-type chip, according to "dmesg". >> >> Are there known-to-be-good-with-GnuRadio NICs for PCI with low-prof

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Gigabit Ethernet cards

2010-07-05 Thread Manuel Fuhr
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 22:40, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > I suspect that my GiGE NIC may be dropping packets.  It's an > RTL8168d-type chip, according to "dmesg". > > Are there known-to-be-good-with-GnuRadio NICs for PCI with low-profile > brackets out there?  This is for >  a 2U server platform. I h

[Discuss-gnuradio] Gigabit Ethernet cards

2010-07-02 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I suspect that my GiGE NIC may be dropping packets. It's an RTL8168d-type chip, according to "dmesg". Are there known-to-be-good-with-GnuRadio NICs for PCI with low-profile brackets out there? This is for a 2U server platform. -- Marcus Leech Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio Astrono