[tulip] Future of tulip, good quad-cards?

[Ben Greear]

I know I would be interested in purchasing quite a few good 4-port
NICs.  The DFE-570tx are OK, and have good driver support, but they
are definately not as good as an EEPRO NIC as far as throughput w/out
dropping packets...

I have yet to test the DFE-580tx, but from what I hear so far, I'm not
horribly excited!

Dan Hollis wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Alexander Haväng wrote:
> 
>>DLink however has discontinued the DFE-570TX card, and instead 
>>introduced a DFE-580TX card with 4 sundance chips. Needless to say, it 
>>sucks :) Even if someone writes a perfect driver, it's still not as good 
>>as the tulip-based cards. It has no interrupt mitigation, and seems 
>>generally flaky.
>>
> 
> I don't see why someone doesn't just make a quad card with ADMtek AN985's.
> They are adequate performers, cheap, and certainly eat much less power 
> than Tulips. A quad tulip card is a space heater...!
> 
> -Dan
> 


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