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
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