PCI Bus GIGABIT CARD QUESTION

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, mel jones wrote:

> 	We want to install a gigabit interface from our master node to
> 	the Baystack 350T-24 switch which serves the compute nodes.
> 	Does anyone out there have any coments on either the G-NIC II 	or the
> Alteon ACEnic cards? These are the only two cards that 	I'm aware of
> with linux drivers. Should we be considering 
> 	something else?

The Acenic driver supports several branded cards: Netgear GA620, 3Com 3c985,
etc.  The Netgear was under $300 when introduced.

Syskonnect has written a driver for their gigabit card.

Right now Intel is the only vendor without an available Linux driver.

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