Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Thread+network crashes in 2.0/2.1 | From | Jes Degn Soerensen <> | Date | 01 Mar 1998 16:20:27 +0100 |
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>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
>> flakey under load and the eepro cards seem much better. It's too >> bad, I liked the tulip cards when they came out, but they haven't >> stood up as time has passed. Intel wins again. Sigh. Actually, >> only half a sigh, Intel builds pretty nice stuff.
Alan> Not what most networking people think. Remember the immortal Alan> quote "Life is too short to debug intel parts". I think the Alan> EEPro is the first intel ethernet card which weighs more than Alan> its errata. All the intel cards go very fast, when they go.
Yes, getting the eepro100's going seems to be a big problem.
We have quite a few of them here, and not once with the PCI NIC's have I heard of anyone here having them going at full blast in full-duplex mode. The only case where I have heard of them going full blast was a test using a the eepro on the motherboard of one of the new p2 LX motherboards.
All these test were done through a switch, we tried different switches without any serioues change in performance, tried forcing full-duplex mode, auto-negotiation ... etc. etc. and even under NT the performance stinks as well.
If anybody has any clue to get these things running at a reasonable speed in full-duplex mode I will be very interested hear about it.
Jes
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