On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Pedro M. Rodrigues wrote:
> Yes, i am aware of the Dlink card. I have it here for a little less
> that. I checked their web page and they only have drivers and
> software providing fault tolerance and bonding for NT. If it had for
> Linux then it would be a real bargain.
What is best place to do fault tolerance and port-truncking?
It can be done in user-space or in kernel but which is best. It would be
real win to have it in kernel thought, because it is not big piece of code
and then it would give much better performance.
> On 25 Feb 00, at 8:17, Jarno Lahteenmaki wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> >
> > > I just gave up on that same thing... I'm fed up with tulips and I
> > > didn't get a good feeling for the Adaptec starfire driver. I
> > > ordered 2-port Intel EtherExpress Pro/100 lan adapters yesterday,
> > > and we plan to put two per machine. If you want to know how they
> > > work out, e-mail me back. I'm not doing any channel bonding with
> > > them though.
> > >
> > > Good luck
> > >
> > > Jeff
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 08:05:09PM +0100, Pedro M. Rodrigues wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello all! This may be off-topic, but does anyone has
> > > > experience
> > > > with 4 port ethernet cards in Linux? How good are their drivers,
> > > > are they open-source and do they provide channel bonding with any
> > > > kind of switching equipment? I´ve seen Phobos sell some with Linux
> > > > support, but now they seem to just license the technology to
> > > > OEM´s.
> >
> > I bought D-Link 4-port adapter which uses DEC DC21152 chipset.
> > It work like a dream and it's fast. It is also very cheap. Here
> > in Finland Adaptec and 3Com 2-port nics costs about $300. And 4-port
> > D-Link nic costs only $230.
--> Jarno Lähteenmäki (25.02.2000)
--> Telecenter Oy / Espoo
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