[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [cobalt-developers] Re: Replacing eepro100 with e100,...

Chris,
Thanks for the info. My only interest in e100 is that it supports IANS. I have nothing against eepro100, and after your effort, I wish I could use it.
When I was using e100 on a seperate machine with three nic cards, it worked fine even under large loads. But I was not testing the load capacity or fault tolerence.
So it may be worth your time to look into e100. Maybe there will be a way to integrate e100 and IANS into the Cobalt os? Then on intitial startup/configuration a question could be asked do you want to use the machine as a gateway/router or combine both nics for maximum bandwidth?
Just a thought. Otherwise thanks for all the information, and I will post my experiences good or bad. They should be good, except for the IP alias thing, it may cause some problems as stated in a previous email. 

Thanks again.


Chris Johnson wrote:


    From     : Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxx>
    > "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote:
> > > So I would ask in return, any reason why Sun/Cobalt 
    > > decided to go with eepro100 instead of e100?
> > General consensus amongst kernel mailing list is that e100 sucks. 
    > Further, when we started hacking on eepro100.c, e100 was not
> available, I believe. 
As Tim says, e100 didn't exist at the outset of the Cobalt RaQ3
effort, so our choices were limited.  At a later date, I put in
an effort to stabilize the RaQ3 and RaQ4 line under extreme load
on 4 eepro interfaces.

I evaluated the e100 (e1000-1.1.1) at that time, and it failed
catastrophically under load on a single interface, whereas the
eepro100 needed three interfaces to get indigestion.  It was an
easy decision to move forward on the eepro100.c

At this stage, I can't make any claims about the e100, since I
would guess that it has evolved from V1.1.1.  I do know that our
eepro100 is decent.

cj*

_______________________________________________
cobalt-developers mailing list
cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers







--
Sincerely,
William L. Thomson Jr.
Obsidian-Studios, Inc.
439 Amber Way
Petaluma, Ca. 94952
Phone 	707.766.9509
Fax 707.766.8989 
http://www.obsidian-studios.com