[Linux-HA] question about dfe-580tx and channel bonding

[Gary Smith]

It's funny because I ran the dfe-570 in a firewall for some time and
when I ordered 4 more from CDW last year I received 4 of the 580's in
the mail.  I fought with them for a week and returned them.  The dfe-570
was clearly the much better card but Dlink stopped making them.  I don't
know why you wouldn't remake the better card but I do know that they
produced that crappy 580 for almost a year.  Many sites on
shopping.yahoo.com say these cards are non-refundable now (if you can
find them anymore).

As a general opinion what's the best quad nic for the money these days
that works with linux out of the box.  I can't seem to find anything
cheap < $300.  

Gary Smith


-----Original Message-----
From: linux-ha-bounces at lists.linux-ha.org
[mailto:linux-ha-bounces at lists.linux-ha.org] On Behalf Of Peter Mueller
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 1:39 PM
To: 'General Linux-HA mailing list'
Subject: RE: [Linux-HA] question about dfe-580tx and channel bonding

> I have heard that DFE-580TX card has design flaws preventing 
> it to work stable 
> enough. It may hang up after two days on high load.

Yes.  Or less.  It seems the DFE-580's die quickly under any load.
DFE-580
are not the same chipset as the DFE-570's with tulip, but a lot of
people
think "ahh these are like the 570's so I'll buy them".  People on
Quagga/Zebra mailing lists have indicated they can't get more than
8000pps
out of the 580's before their system becomes completely unreliable;
freebsd
or linux.  I would use Intel i1000's instead, or an older legacy card
such
as dfe-570, eepro100, etc.

P

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