SysKonnect SK-9821 V2.0 gigabit NIC?

Juan Gallego Little.Boss at physics.mcgill.ca
Fri Mar 7 12:04:13 PST 2003


On 2003-03-07 13:31-0600, Jim Phillips <jim at ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

| Hi,
|
| Has anyone had a chance to try the new SK-9821 V2.0 adapter from
| SysKonnect?  The old SK-9821 was expensive but had great performance and
| drivers for several unices.  The new 2.0 is cheaper ($170 or so), so I'm
| wondering if the performance and stability have been preserved.

yup. from my tests (on tyan tiger mpx 2466-4M): 31 microseconds 1-byte
packet latencies, and 942 Mb/s for large packet sizes with 9k frames, kernel
2.4.20-ac2, computers back to back (no switch)

hth,
-- 
juan



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