Re: Gigabit Ethernet for XP1000 / RH 6.1

["Frank Palmieri" <frank interscopetech com>]

> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Frank Palmieri wrote:
>
> > I have a Compaq XP1000 running RedHat 6.1 and I'm looking for
> > recommendations on a Gigabit Ethernet adapter that works well with this
> > configuration.  Does anybody have any experience (good or bad) with a
> > particular vendor.  I'm leaning towards Alteon (now 3Com I understand).
>
> Fibre or copper?  The Alteon/3Com uses the Acenic chip, which is also used
> by the (frequently) cheaper Netgear cards.  I think 3Com released a new
> Acenic-based card with newer firmware, but I'm not sure about that.
>
Copper would be preferable.  We are setting up a "private" connection
between two machines that need a high speed data pipe between them so we
could go either way but copper would be easier.

Frank