Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Slightly Off-Topic: MacOS as server or Linux? (tulip driver notice)
From: Nicolai Langfeldt (janl@math.uio.no)
Date: Tue Nov 25 1997 - 05:45:06 EST
Jeff Wiegley <jeff@w3-design.com> tastet:
> The company I worked with went with an Intel/Linux platform for all
> our file sharing plans and we haven't looked back. We've been running
> problem free for 14 days now. Haven't had to reboot the machine or
> restart the file sharing servers netatalk or samba except to add
> printers.
...
> Don't bet on the DEC tulip cards. They are *great* cards and they
> seem to work perfectly *except* with netatalk. Even Donald Beckers
> newest tulip drivers do not seem to work correctly with netatalk
...
This is ...interesting.
I'm running netatalk on a machine with a 21140 card at 10Mbps. Works
great. Stock 2.0.31 kernel at the moment (_no_ patches).
Is it at 100Mbps it breaks down?
Another interesting thing, People using boomerang (3com 10/100) cards
should be cautious about using the new 'unified' 3com driver.
If my box breaks at 100Mbps I'm going to try Intel Etherexpress Pro.
It appears it has the potential to be faster than tulips due to
alignment flexibility (apparently the typical packet payload start
can be aligned to 4byte boundrary, instead of the header which the
tulip dictates)
Nicolai
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