I never claimed to have done any performance comparisons between 8139 and
other chipsets. For $8-$12, I am certain not to get the very best hardware.
I'm just reporting that I feel great confidence in buying 8139-based cards
under Linux, having installed and used quite a few without incident.
I'm sorry to hear your experience with them was not as good.
tlj
El Jue 07 Ago 2003 08:13 PM, Andrew M Hoerter escribió:
> If you're talking about the RealTek 8139, it's junk (unless the chip has
> been updated drastically while I wasn't paying attention).
>
> However, it's difficult to judge the quality of an ethernet controller
> until you put it under load. Since most people use about 5% or less of
> their Ethernet capacity, problems rarely surface on home networks with
> even the worst chipsets. If you're buying something for Grandma's PC at
> home, it probably doesn't matter.
>
> But as soon as you start pushing those things closer to wire rate, they'll
> get flaky. Firewalls, routers, fileservers, and so on all do much better
> with decent Ethernet cards.
>
> If you care about having a good Ethernet controller, I recommend primarily
> the Intel 825xx chips in their various forms (EEPRO/100, etc.) and the DEC
> TULIP (comes in many forms from many vendors). Some of 3Com's stuff is
> okay, some of it really sucks. I haven't had much experience with the
> smaller vendors like VIA and Adaptec.
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