If you want 32-bit pci Nic's, I'd suggest the Intel Pro/1000 MT.

It's what I run in this particular desktop system as well as several
others. In my servers (~50) I have all 64-bit PCI-X broadcom nic's
integrated on the boards.

They both seem to work quite well.

Hope this helps.

Michael

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 10:19 +1000, Michael Mansour wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Is there any particular model of Intel gigabit card you recommend?
> 
> I've spoken to my supplier and they say they'll take back the cards I bought 
> and swap them for Intel, but would like to know a model so I don't have to 
> make this same mistake again.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Michael.
> 
> > Well the first thing I'd say is that the realtek chipset's are terrible
> > if you really want performance. They don't do any packet header
> > processing or other tcp hardware offloading, causing your CPU to take
> > the brunt of the packet load (with gigabit this is bad).
> > 
> > I would recommend Broadcom or Intel based gigabit cards.
> > 
> > Regardless of this fact, mii-tool doesn't support reading out gigabit
> > link status. It'll give you a link up status with 100FD for 1000FD cards
> > linked at 1000FD with flow control enabled.
> > 
> > I know it at least reports on the broadcom and intel based cards 
> > with a link up status.
> > 
> > Otherwise, I think you might need to find another tool to get real link
> > status out of a gigabit nic.
> > 
> > On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 09:32 +1000, Michael Mansour wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I've just purchased some Netgear 1gigabit ethernet cards and to my 
> > > dissapointment mii-tool couldn't be used to query them, even though the 
> linux 
> > > kernel has no issues with using them.
> > > 
> > > I run cluster software with SL303 which uses mii-tool to do link level 
> > > checking etc... so my question is, which 1gigabit cards work correctly 
> with 
> > > SL303 and mii-tool? so that I get output similar to the following:
> > > 
> > > [root@anaconda root]# mii-tool
> > > eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-HD, link ok
> > > eth1: negotiated 100baseTx-HD, link ok
> > > SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth2' failed: Operation not supported
> > > 
> > > note: eth2 is the Netgear card (which uses a Realtek chip), the other two 
> are 
> > > just standard Realtek PCI cards.
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > > 
> > > Michael.
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