From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Intel PRO/100 VE (82562) From: Geoff Collyer In-Reply-To: <4028428F.7040904@ajft.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 20:13:30 -0800 Topicbox-Message-UUID: db216a0a-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 You can always replace the existing ethernet card (or augment it, if it's actually a built-in chip set or ASIC or something). The `Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapter', which is supported, are down to US$53.48 on buy.com, for example. I bought a pair of these a while ago, for my file server and main cpu server (when gigabit switches were a lot more expensive), and adapted the driver to the file server kernel, but then realised that I should first replace my IDE cache disk with a SCSI because the fs kernel's IDE driver doesn't use DMA, and it's noticeably slower than using a SCSI disk (in part because my big RAM cache tends to get flushed each night; it's a long story). And none of this has got done while I'm looking for full-time employment.