Re: what NIC for heavy load?

Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control

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On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:30:10PM +0100, Anton Tinchev wrote:
AT>Hi,
AT>first i wonna thank you for the great work.
AT>I have few slack boxes with several 3com cards that acts as routers.
AT>Some of them has 50+ vlans, 100 000+ routing entries, full BGP (zebra) with 10+ peers
AT>and routes 50-70 mb/s traffic. Everithing is rock solid, few months uptimes.

AT>I wona to upgrade some of my cards and need advice what to use.
AT>On 100+mb/s interrups killing my boxes - 20 000+/s (yes, coalescing, i know:))
AT>What to use? tigon2 or tigon3 for gigabit? (3c985 or 3c996)

AT>and  - is there any performance changes between 3c905 and 3c980 (both 100mb/s) like coalescing, checksums ...

AT>Thanks again for the work.

may be I should try patch using polling for 3com cards
I found this patch in net and now try on my own box
Seems to be work (it still beta)


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