[ale] NIC recommendations??

[Randolph C. Karrh]

Jenn:

I have three boxes working off one run cheap 100Mbps IEEE 802.3u
100baseTX(generic pci card)  connected to a cable modem without any
errors and a subnet connected a 3Com switching hub with linksys LNE 100TX
100 mbps for two  years now without any problems.

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:FC:21:8B:A9
          inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3151350 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4010678 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:1049429 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xea00

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:B4:A2:7E:3E
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2102088 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1652465 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:433 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0xee80






On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 jenn at colormaria.com wrote:

> In the ongoing quest for less dropped packets, I did something I should've done 2 weeks ago...ifconfig. Duh.  Here's the interesting bits of output on my external NIC on my external router (ie, the only NIC that touches IBM's network):
>
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:12489015 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:17773919 errors:1044846 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:2089692
>           collisions:75672 txqueuelen:100
>
> Uptime: 3 days
> So I believe my mystery is solved...the most recent info I can find about the particular card and driver (NetGear with a RealTek chip, driver 8139too) is for kernel 2.4.6 (I'm using .7 so not too far off).  Others have reported similar behaviour under high traffic, which explains my fluctuations in packet loss as well.
>
> So on to the question -- what do those of you in high-traffic environments use NICwise?  I've had success with linksys believe it or not, and miserable experiences with 3com and Intel eepro.  I'm hesitant to just patch this driver b/c I'm seeing reports that the patches don't fix this particular problem.
>
> Any input??
>
> TIA
> jenn
>
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