Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

[Juergen Mell <mell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 05 May 2006 12:42, Michael W Cocke wrote:
> On Wed, 03 May 2006 19:16:37 +0200, you wrote:
> >On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 09:07 +0200, Juergen Mell wrote:
> >> I am looking for a GBit network adapter which is well-supported under
> >> SUSE 10.0 for our (small) server.
> >
> >Intel server cards would be my first choice.  The other I have
> >experience with (doesn't blow my hair back but I can't complain about
> >them either) are the Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5701 cards.  Be advised that
> >both are PCI-x cards, and neither of them perform that much better than
> >a decent 100mbit card if you put it in an ordinary PCI slot.  The
> >broadcom cards also come in a 3com branded card.
> >
> >> We will have 3 of these adapters in the server,
> >> so the CPU load generated by the driver should not be too high.
> >
> >That's what the above mentioned cards are for.  That's also why they
> >cost six times as much as other gigabit cards.
> >
> >> Intel
> >> adapaters seem to have some serious problems (sometimes locking the
> >> whole system for several milliseconds, so three of them are simply out
> >> of discussion)
> >
> >I wasn't a ware of this.  I have several machines with Intel gigabit
> >cards in.  One of them is a file server for a large engineering firm -
> >it has four Intel gigabit cards on, and the type of usage is such that
> >both the 5x 15000rpm scsi raid-5 set is running at full speed most of
> >the time.  If there is any delay from the network cards, it's not enough
> >for any one to notice.
> >
> >Hans
>
> I have a much MUCH smaller setup, but with a pair of intel 1000/T
> cards in the server I can stream video on both lines with no glitches,
> with a bit of capacity left (I can't run a backup, but I can do normal
> app data file accesses).  I couldn't manage that with one intel card
> and one broadcom.
>
> Mike-

Hello Hans, Jack and Mike,

thanks for your replies. If three out of three are satisfied with the Intel 
cards, I will give them a try. On the other hand, there does not seem to be 
any other product on the market (3COM will stop selling their 3C996 and 
3C2000 in June) which is supported by Linux.

Thanks,
           Jürgen

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