Jima wrote: >On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Anton Yurchenko wrote: > > >>Well the gigabit Broadcom Tigon3 chipset has very good support, I`d even >>say probably even better then Intel e1000, and even performs better. In >>a source driver tg3. >> >> > > Well, when the driver doesn't lock up your system, anyway[1]. In Mr. >Garzik's defense, though, tg3 is a LOT better[2] than Broadcom's driver >for the same chipset (bcm5700), which has problems with heavy loads. The >summary I've heard is that the hardware sucks, and either driver has to >compensate for that fact. But, IANAKH (kernel hacker); I'm just >regurgitating what I've read on linux-poweredge[3], where this has been a >popular issue, due to Dell putting the Tigon3 chipset on some PowerEdge >motherboards. > Just thought I'd chime in. > > Hm, cant comment on the issues you`ve mentioned since it was resolved more then a year ago and I first saw a tg3 in feb 2003 , back then it probably was happening, e1000 also had some issues. And still has them but I guess that is just a hardware thing, mostly bad duplex negotiation behaviour, I always lock the speed and duplex on a production boxes, but clients used to not do this and many e1000 were installed on a Tyan motherboards that were in the servers on colocation. Other then duplex and back then missing support for NAPI e1000 was great, though tg3 seemed a little more cleaner. The last I`ve seen those about 2 month ago, none had any issues and performed beutifully, all thanks to Jeff Garzik and I guess a lot of effort on Intel part, they are doing a great job, and thanks for NAPI support. > Jima > >1. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=79997 >2. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hardware.dell.poweredge/3000 >3. http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list