[Soekris] Gigabit on 5501-70?

[Joel Jaeggli]

nicodache wrote:
> You might give a try to good Eth card, like Intel one, that do a lot
> of work (like checksumming) in hardware, while realtek chips often
> wait for the processor to do that. In that case, the Geode certainly
> won't be powerfull enough...

It's 32bit 33mhz pci, it will be faster than a 100Mb/s nic but it won't 
approach the performance of a gig nic in a pci-x or pci-e slot.

If it's being used for convenience purposes or to squeeze out a bit more 
performance there's no reason not to do it. From a pure throughput 
perspective you would be disappointed.

> Regards,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:31 PM, John Cox <jc-work at uphall.net> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>>  I want to use a 5501-70 in its default case as a firewall and
>>  lightweight fileserver (samba) running OpenBSD.  I'd like to have have a
>>  gigabit connection to the main network.  Does anyone have a
>>  recommendation for a gigabit card that is known to work (and fit in the
>>  case)?
>>
>>  Many thanks
>>
>>  John Cox
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