Re: cheap network card supported by linux

2004-09-11 Thread Matthias Czapla
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 07:43:42AM -0500, Tim Kelley wrote: > On Friday 10 September 2004 14:40, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > > if you want network performance... you have to spend a day tuning it > > and testing it and changing the tcp/ip parameters and hope your nic > > can also keep up ( most all

Re: cheap network card supported by linux

2004-09-11 Thread Silvan
On Friday 10 September 2004 03:40 pm, Alvin Oga wrote: > if you want network performance... you have to spend a day tuning it > and testing it and changing the tcp/ip parameters and hope your nic > can also keep up ( most all of um fail ... none can run(sustained) at > even 50% of its 100Mbps or 1

Re: cheap network card supported by linux

2004-09-11 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 10 September 2004 14:40, Alvin Oga wrote: > if you want network performance... you have to spend a day tuning it > and testing it and changing the tcp/ip parameters and hope your nic > can also keep up ( most all of um fail ... none can run(sustained) at > even 50% of its 100Mbps or 10

Re: cheap network card supported by linux

2004-09-10 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 02:01:22 +0300 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Janne Blomqvist) wrote: > > > Most cards work fine these days. The thing is to avoid the really > > crappy ones. Plenty of anecdotal evidence suggests to avoid the rt8139 > > chipset based cards,

Re: cheap network card supported by linux

2004-09-10 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 02:01:22 +0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Janne Blomqvist) wrote: > Most cards work fine these days. The thing is to avoid the really > crappy ones. Plenty of anecdotal evidence suggests to avoid the rt8139 > chipset based cards, which most of the really cheap ones unfortunately > are.

Re: cheap network card supported by linux

2004-09-09 Thread John Summerfield
Janne Blomqvist wrote: cheapest available card listed in ethernet howto, 3c905, costs 29 euro I had the same problem a year ago. I needed a couple of network cards. I didn't want the rt8139 or similar crappy ones nor did I want to pay for the 3c905 or Intel e100. I found this page quite inf

Re: cheap network card supported by linux

2004-09-09 Thread Janne Blomqvist
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 04:19:00PM +0200, siward wrote: > i found out that cheapest network card for sale here > (at Vobis Utrecht) is supported by linux, > though it is not yet in ethernet howto. Most cards work fine these days. The thing is to avoid the really crappy ones. Plenty of anecdota