Re: Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters

[Richard Gooch]

David S. Miller writes:
>    From: Richard Gooch <[e-mail]>
>    Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 17:55:44 -0700
> 
>    David S. Miller writes:
>    > 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?
> 
> I can only tell you what I know performance wise about cards,
> and currently it looks like:
> 
> 1) Intel E1000
> 2) Tigon2, aka. Acenic
> 3) SysKonnect sk98, but has broken TX checksums.  If it had
>    working TX checksums it would be in 2nd place instead of Acenic.
>    This hw bug is essentially why Acenics were used for all the
>    TUX benchmarks runs instead of SysKonnect cards.
> 4) Tigon3, aka. bcm57xx
> 
> This may surprise some people, but frankly I think the Tigon3's PCI
> dma engine is junk based upon my current knowledge of the card.  It is
> always possible I may find out something new which kills this
> perception I have of the card, but we'll see...

I note the Intel card is pretty expensive. What are these "Addtron"
cards I see listed on www.pricewatch.com for US$36 ?Is that a
supported card under another name?

> All the cards listed above have good GPL'd drivers available.

When is the E1000 driver going to be added to the kernel?

				Regards,

					Richard....
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