I have 3 e1000 cards (about £30 each) - they're relegated to doorstops I'm afraid :(
Despite months of trying they just won't work with my consumer VIA/AMD systems (and Ganesh and gang have tried)
I'm now using even cheaper Marvell based SMC EZ1000s (£20ish) - I doubt I'll get close to the throughput the e1000s could achieve - but I get 3 times more then fast ethernet (and about 10 times more than e1000s) which is worthwhile.
David
Erik Mouw wrote:
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 06:30:51AM -0500, TJ wrote:
I'm cheap. I use a crossover so I didn't have to spring for the switch. The NICs are Intel 82540EM's. I got them for around $55 per. I didn't think that was too bad for gigabit. Of course, these controllers may be complete trash, I dunno.
You won't do any better than fast ethernet when you're using a crossover cable. Gigabit ethernet doesn't need crossover cables for direct connections, it uses all four wire pairs in cat5 cable and will automatically figure out if there's a direct connection and do the right thing (all mandatory by the gigE standard, so every NIC will support it). If you use a fast ethernet cross cable, the NICs will autonegotiate to 100 MB/s full-duplex.
The Intel gigE NICs are very good: good hardware, good driver, good support. Gigabit ethernet switches are becoming rather cheap: 200 EUR buys you an 8 port switch.
Erik
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