> > > I have been shopping around to purchase 60 NIC cards. There seems to be a
> > > broad range in prices between $8 to $100 for PCI bus master NIC cards.
> > > What type of performance differences would I see in using say a $10 bus
> > > master Generic NIC (10/100) card instead of a say $50 to $100 3COM
> > > (10/100) NIC. Is there any real justification for purchasing the more
> > > expensive cards for creating a LINUX cluster
> > >
> >
> > As far as the expensive NICs go, I would suggest you to stay away from
> > 3com cards. I have found from expearance that they fail quite often. not
> > to say that 3com wont ship you new cards to replace them, but do you realy
> > want to mess with them. From my expearance (the past 1.5 years) about 25%
> > of all 3com NICs come from the box are bad. Personaly, I use Intel
> > NICs. They are similar in price to the 3coms, and similar in performance.
>
> I also dislike 3com (their isa one's were nice, the pci ones have
> feature's) I got more syslog errors about my cyclone in my box in a week
> than the dec tulip gave in a year (about 10 transmitter errors on the same
> hardware). Intel eepro10/100's have a problem woth multicast when using
> the in kernel driver (you need a newer one form Don Becker). I think that
> your best bet for price / performance is to look at the tulip clones
> (Netgear do one)
Please don't talk about price/performance ratio, because old 10mbit
ne2000 are usually available for free. And 0/900Kps is still 0
;-). And please take this offtopic thread out of linux-kernel, thanx.
Pavel
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