Re: i hate my tulip based NIC card !!

[Designer Seven <designer_7 yahoo com>]

Yeah, I love the tulip cards... on Intel, they were
the only cards that performed well in promisc mode.
However, I do recall reading somewhere that the tulip
cards misalign the IP bytes... and this is a
performance hinderance on Alpha...

I actually love the tulip cards so much that I stock
up on them whenever I can find them.. as they are no
longer produced, or so it seems.

My experiences with the 3Com905TX has been poor. On
intel/Linux, they were poor performers under high
traffic, especially in promisc mode. On Alpha/Linux, I
kept getting packet errors at about 40% of the time.
The 3COM cards seem to work really well if you use
NT... so perhaps it's just a driver issue? (I'm not
qualified to really say..)

D.

--- Wes Bauske <wsb@paralleldata.com> wrote:
> greg meno wrote:
> > 
> > as you can see by the title i'm not to impressed
> with the kingston 10/100
> > NIC, ddoes anyone have suggestions for a fast
> ethernet card that works with
> > alpha linux
> 
> Must be something specific to the Kingston card.
> I use several brands of 2114x based cards plus
> built-in's and they all work well, as long as you
> use the latest tulip.c from Becker's site.
> 
> Netgear FA310TX (old ones, the new ones use a
> different chip)
> Netgear new cards are supposed to work. I don't have
> one 
> though. Might pick one up and try it. They have a
> driver on
> their site but I don't know if it's Intel only or??
> 
> 21143's built into XP1000/DS10's.
> 
> Linksys Etherfast 100-TX (21140)
> 
> SVEC (21142 or 21143, can't remember)
> 
> Also have a D-Link 530tx, a via-rhine card but had
> trouble
> with it initially so it's not installed in anything
> at the
> moment.
> 
> 
> Wes
> 
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