8139too driver has problem?

[mwafkowski]

Ditto - Save yourself a heap of trouble and buy a decent card. The chipsets
mentioned below are all good. Unfortunately even some "name brand"
manufacturers are now using the 8139 chipset. Yecchhh. Cheap has a place but
not in servers.

Regards,
MRW

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Welty" <rwelty at averillpark.net>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: 8139too driver has problem?


> On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 15:27:11 +0900 SHIBUYA Katsutoshi
<shibuya at bu-denken.co.jp> wrote:
> > I found a document mentioning about such problem;
> > http://linux24.sourceforge.net
> > Here they say "RTL 8139 cards sometimes stop responding. Both drivers
> > don't handle this quite good enough yet."
> > but in the "Fixed" section...
>
> the realtek 8139 and related chips are simply not very good ethernet
> chipsets. because they're cheap, they are however depressingly
> common. i tolerate them in workstation applications but quite frankly
> they're bad news in servers because they fall apart under heavy
> loads. the design is fundamentally flawed (Theo de Raadt wrote
> an extensive and informative diatribe about how bad they are
> on the openbsd misc list a month or two back, it's worth looking
> up to get an insight into just how bad the design really is.)
>
> "buy another card" isn't the most pleasant advice you can get,
> but you may suffer less pain if you go that route. if you can perhaps
> scrape up an old tulip based card (netgear fa310 (_not_ 311), dlink
> dfx 500 (_not_ 530), smc etherpower, etc., those work well.
>
> some 3coms (905s before the C version) and intels (later etherexpress
> PROs, not the first version) are quite good. the smc etherpower II
> is ok except multicast is broken. some of the other smc cards i've
> used have been decent too.
>
> hopefully some others can offer suggestions of chipsets that have
> worked well for them.
>
> richard
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