Re: Intel EtherExpress pro/10+ cards

[Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net>]

On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 11:54:33PM +0500, CyberPsychotic wrote:
...
> ~ :Thats exactly the problem.  We used to have them in a few machine here,
> ~ :and they worked fine - until you placed any sort of network load on
> ~ :them.  Basically, save your sanity and buy a new ne2k isa clone for $10.
>
> hmm.. does this apply to all Intel EtherExpress pro/10* cards, or some
> specific brand (pci/isa,..)? 

AFAIK, it's all the 10Mb/s only ones (BSDI sez: "Intel EtherExpress 16
... Performance is inadequate for use on server machines. See Device
Recommendations.")  and some of the early 10/100 cards.  The 10/100
cards released in the last year or two (Intel EtherExpress Pro/100+ or
100B) seem to be excellent, though.

We've used them to replace most of our old DEC DE500A cards, configured
for 100TX and full duplex, and I can push 40Mb/sec bidirectional
between two servers for hours with 0 packet loss.

Even with those, however, there can be wild differences in actual
hardware.  Some Intel cards use a completely different chipset for the
physical level interface even under the exact same model name, and
there's pretty much no relationship between Intel cards with different
model names.
  -- Clifton

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