Re: Gigabit ethernet cards

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 02:19:41PM -0500, William Lovaton wrote:
> I am afraid that it is a bad assumption to think that 1Gb will improve
> transfer speeds just like that.  Maybe there is some deeper
> configuration / tuning left to be done after installing the new card.

Make sure you get a card that is 66Mhz and/or 64bit if your PCI busses
can take it, and if not definitely that its on its own bus. PCI 32/33Mhz
is too slow to make best use of gigabit.

On desktop boxes the PCI bus typically ends up a bottleneck. Good servers
tend to work out better - keep the disk and gige on different pci busses
etc