Re: Help, I need a good multi-port NIC...

["Michael C. Ibarra" <ibarra@hawk.com>]

At 11:54 AM 04/26/2000 +0100, Peter Galbavy wrote:
> > We found on 2.6 and above, throughput was absolutely appalling with the DE
> > driver, but very good with the DC driver. We use one in our router here
>and
> > have installed them in numerous client machines. They are very cheap too.
>In
> > the UK, we were buying them for £140.
>
>Caveat: the if_dc.c file needs a one line change for the match routine to
>notice the card. I think this is only a problem if you have the if_de driver
>in the kernel too.
>
>Peter


Thank you for all of the responses. I've decided to test out the DLink 570TX
that Ian Cass has suggested, mainly because of the price, $149US. I will
probably at some point look to test out another card as I really hate to base
any decision on price alone, but hey it helps :-) In case anyone is interested,
I've purchased my card from http://www.netlux.com/

-mike

PS Has anyone had any success with aggregating bandwidth on any of the four 
port cards