The issue with the tulip cards are there are real DEC based NICS and then
the clones. I have 3 of the clones and I'm not sure if I trust a 19.00 NIC
to compete with the Intel which is supposed to a high end NIC. BUT I could
be smoking crack on that. I'm on the eepro mailing list and there just
seems to be something "wrong" that no one can figure out that causes
failures and or poor performance.
:(
Anyone else care to share what NICs they are using?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Irvine" <airvine@calweb.com>
To: <lug-nuts@saclug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Lug-Nuts] NICS
> >I've got an Intel Pro 100+
>
> from the eepro100.c source on my 2.2.14 machine
> The Speedo3 is very similar to other Intel network chips, that is to say
>
> "apparently designed on a different planet".
>
> now the be fair they do say they use them.
> from http://beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc-hw.html
> Intel "Providence" PR440FX Motherboard with on-board Intel Fast
> Ethernet.
> Two Pentium Pro CPU's running at 200 MHz
> 128M of memory
> 3 IDE disks
>
> But I have liked the tulip driver and the cost of the cards is better
> too
> from http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html
> Most of the current Beowulf cluster at least use one channel of
> Tulip-based Fast Ethernet.
>
> I think at the installfest there should be a network card test off
> here is the URL for Linux Network Drivers
> http://cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/
>
>
>
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