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. > ------- End of Original Message -------