Re: NIC differences

Aaron Tiensivu (mojomofo@ctechnix.com)
Wed, 16 Jun 1999 13:01:34 -0400

> 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

I've had extremely good luck/performance with the DEC Tulip based card.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure if DEC is making those chips anymore or not since
the Compaq buyout. There are a lot of clones out now and I don't have much
experience with them (except Macronix, which seems to be a pretty damn solid
netcard as long as your PCI bus is under 40mhz, heheheheheh).

They are usually ~$25 in price and all the machines in this house use them
exclusively. (6 machines, all but one running Linux)

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