On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 14:43, Anders Norrbring wrote:
Yep... I can say, stay away from ANY NIC's that use the RTL-8169 chip! They can't keep up since they don't have any on-board processing. Everything is made in the computer's CPU, and that in turn gives you heave congestion problems!
Well for home, one of the use I can think of is moving data faster to the backup machine, since current disks get 30 to 50 MB/s that's all I would ask from the gigabit card even if it takes some CPU. Do you have any measurement for different cards?
No, actually I don't... But with a RTL-8169 based card, continuous load (like backups) and large file copying my transfer rate dropped to a measly 10-20 kbit/s, when I swapped it for a 3Com card I have a rate close to 980 kbit/s with low load on the rest of the network. Anders.