[Gllug] GigE

[John Hearns]

On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 16:42, Simon Stewart wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:52:50AM +0000, John Hearns wrote:
> > "Well, I just bought GbE cards for $36 each, and a couple 4 port GbE
> > switches
> > for $130 each. Per port cost is $69. Get creative on how to connect
> 
> Where's that? The places that I found are still charging more than
> that per card....
> 

They seems to be Addtron brand cards.

Thsi from the Beowulf list:

> $34.50 USD for ADDTRON GBE based on the NS83820 (or is that 82830?)
> chipset.
> 
> not sure if its a 32 or 64 bit card though.

The $36 addtron cards that a few places have on pricewatch are 32bit
cards.  I
also see Ark GA-2500T and D-Link DGE-500T cards for $44-50 from a few
places. 
The cheapest 64-bit cards seem to be some more Addtron ones starting at
$67.

Addtron claims their 320T and 620T (64bit) cards work with Linux.  I
don't
know what the ark and dlink cards' status is.  The quality of the driver
(
stability, hardware TCP/IP checksum, jumbo frames, etc.) and any
motherboards
incompatibilities are also a big question. 




So the brands to look for seem to be Addtron,Ark,  D-Link and Intel.




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