Re: Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters

[Richard Gooch]

David S. Miller writes:
>    From: Harald Welte <[e-mail]>
>    Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 16:33:39 +0100
>    
>    You can buy bcm57xx based boards, where the chipset is nice but the driver
>    not really nice yet.
>    
> My tg3 driver sucks then right?  Could you send me a bug report?
> 
>    You can buy syskonnect sk98 boards, which definitely have a good chipset - 
>    but the driver doesn't support the tcp transmit zerocopy path yet.  I've
>    tried to put some pressure on SysKonnect about this - but they seem a bit
>    'slow'.
>    
> The hardware is not capable of doing it, due to bugs in the hw
> checksum implementation of the sk98 chipset.  They aren't being
> "slow" they just can't possibly implement it for you.

So what is currently the best combination of gige card/driver/cost?
What do you recommend to the budget-conscious?

				Regards,

					Richard....
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