On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Dan Hollis wrote: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Jeff Rauenhorst wrote: > > I'm looking at buying a couple linksys EtherFast 100TX (ver. 4.0) NIC's > > and was wondering if anyone had any experience with them. > > Driver support? (supposedly tulip works) > > Tulip works > > > Performance? > > Very poor. 100TX uses the cheap taiwanese PNIC tulip clone. Nope, the v4.0/v4.1 boards use the ADMtek Comet or Centaur/P. You will, of course, need an updated driver. http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/network/test/tulip.c > Youll be lucky > to get 2.5mbyte/sec out of them on 100mbps ether. While the original PNIC chip are sensitive to out-of-spec PCI bus timing, the PNIC, PNIC-1+ (82c169) and PNIC-2 are easily capable of full-data-rate performance. Donald Becker becker@scyld.com Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Beowulf-II Cluster Distribution Annapolis MD 21403 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
