Recommended PCI gigabit ethernet card?

Michael ODonnell michael.odonnell at comcast.net
Thu Jun 14 13:01:19 EDT 2007



Now that Intel has released the HW specs for the
e1000 family (generally having 825nn part numbers)
I can recommend it.  The driver is mature and in
wide use and offers full support for useful features
like bonding, ipv6 and huge packets.  Esoterica:
it even has a (compile time) option that causes it
to go into polled (rather than interrupt driven)
mode while traffic is above a given threshold, the
intent being to reduce interrupt overhead...
 


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