[LARTC] Hardware Configuration Ideas

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Taylor, Grant schrieb:
>>Yes, this is indeed a problem. Cards based on this chipset don't scale well. Try
>>3coms or intels. If you're short on money, dlink dfe-530tx might do too.
> 
> Um, the DFE-530TX+ is a (rebranded) Realtek8139 chipset card so I would
> expect that the performance would be comparable to the Realtek cards.
> I personally have not used them but I have heard wonderful things about
> DEC Tulip cards.

Some of the DFE-5..TX cards are indeed tulip based and have very good
performance for a reasonable price. Unfortunately sources on the net
disagree which cards have which chipset, so I recommend looking at them
(I bought a new tulip based card here in Germany for 7 Euros). It pays
to request a look at the chipsets of the cheaper cards, they might not
even advertise their chipsets as tulip.


Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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