Martin Josefsson wrote: >On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > >> Hello Dani , inline . >> >>On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Roisman, Dani wrote: >> >>>I've used D-Link DFE570TX cards. they're 32Bit, not 64Bit. They have 100% >>>real tulip 21143, but I've seen some issues with high packet-per-second >>>traffic ( >50Kpps per interface). >>> >> Yup , know about them . The MB I want to use it with has a funky >> stipulation that if any card in the 64bit pci bus is 32bit it will >> limit the data transfer on all cards in the bus to 32bit . iirc . >> This MB has only 64bit pci slots (well there is one -at- slot) . >> > >I use the D-Link DFE570TX card in several routers here. And I don't use >the regular tulipdriver, it has problems with high packetrates yes, mostly >because of high irqloads. I use the NAPI enabled tulipdriver and I have no >problem routing 64byte packets at wirespeed here (148.800pps). > If you enable CONFIG_NET_HW_FLOWCONTROL in 2.4.x, you pretty much get NAPI tulip without the fancy name :) - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
