Scott Lampert wrote:
> In my experience trying to share interrupts with any Tulip card
> causes "issues." I've tried it many times with many different cards
> (various Kingston, Netgear and Linksys tulip cards) and every time, if
> it works at all, the network latency is noticeably higher under both
> Linux and Windows systems especially when transfering large streams of
> data (or playing Quake :) ). I would strongly suggest rearranging your
> cards till the tulip card gets its own IRQ and see if you still have
> this problem.
That is very interesting. I've seen similar reports like this too.
Although it would only mask other problems, it might be worthwhile to
make the driver refuse to share interrupts just for sanity's sake...
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