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Re: Multiport NIC's - Recommendations?



On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 03:29:36PM -0700, Nate Campi wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 03:04:51PM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote:
> 
> > I've got a firewall with two Intel Corp. EtherExpress PRO/100+ Dual
> > Port Adapters in it -- they work fine, as do the 3c905b's and the
> > onboard ee100.  It has been running woody for about 18 months.  All
> > 5 ee100 ports print a warning at boot.
> 
> Warnings about IRQ conflicts? You still get good throughput and see no
> problems? 

Here's the relevant part of dmesg for my SS40G firewall.  It has a dual
port TLAN and NC3131 in it in addition to the on board 8139:

8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xde8ad000, 00:30:1b:11:08:b3,
IRQ 10
eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
ThunderLAN driver v1.15
TLAN: eth1 irq=10, io=a000, Compaq Netelligent Dual 10/100 TX PCI UTP,
Rev. 16
TLAN: eth2 irq=11, io=a400, Compaq Netelligent Dual 10/100 TX PCI UTP,
Rev. 16
TLAN: 2 devices installed, PCI: 2  EISA: 0
Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver - version 2.1.24-k1
Copyright (c) 2002 Intel Corporation

e100: selftest OK.
e100: eth3: Compaq Fast Ethernet Server Adapter
  Mem:0xde300000  IRQ:11  Speed:0 Mbps  Dx:N/A

e100: selftest OK.
e100: eth4: Compaq Fast Ethernet Server Adapter
  Mem:0xde301000  IRQ:10  Speed:0 Mbps  Dx:N/A

No through put problems here.

-- 
Jamin W. Collins

Remember, root always has a loaded gun.  Don't run around with it unless
you absolutely need it. -- Vineet Kumar



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