On Wed, 03 May 2006 19:16:37 +0200, you 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
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 09:07 +0200, Juergen Mell wrote: 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- -- If you're not confused, you're not trying hard enough. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments,