On Tue, 2004-11-23 12:28:54 -0500, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message <Pine.LNX.4.61.0411231216470.3740@p500>:
Each driver works, I have not benchmarked performance with one over the other with ttcp yet; however, does anyone have any experience with using one over the other? I see the tulip has several options and the de4x5 seems to be a rather generic driver.
The de4x5 driver supports some older revisions of the tulip chipset
which aren't supported by the tulip driver. I guess it could be made to
support those, too, but nobody did that up to now.
You can actually see the difference on older Alphas: de4x5 works while
tulip doesn't transmit or receive a single packet (getting netdev
watchdogs later on...).