eepro100 vs. e100 (kernel 2.4.20)

[David Rohleder]

Peter.Mann na tuke.sk (Peter Mann) writes:

> Heyaaa!!!
>
> ma niekto z vas skusenosti s ovladacmi e100 a eepro100?
>
> EtherExpressPro/100 support (eepro100, original Becker driver)
> EtherExpressPro/100 support (e100, Alternate Intel driver)                                                         
>
> doteraz som pouzival eepro100, v 2.4.20 sa objavil "alternate" driver
>
> e100:
> description: "Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver"
> author:      "Intel Corporation, <linux.nics na intel.com>"
> license:     "GPL"
>
> eepro100:
> description: "Intel i82557/i82558/i82559 PCI EtherExpressPro driver"
> author:      "Maintainer: Andrey V. Savochkin <saw na saw.sw.com.sg>"
> license:     "GPL"
>
> bude v tom nejaky "funkcny" rozdiel??? ano, je pravda, ze sa daju
> nastavovat rozne parametre vid 'modinfo e100' resp. 'modinfo eepro100',
> ale ja som zatial ziadne nepotreboval - je nejaky rozdiel v zakladnom
> ovladaci? mate nejake skusenosti?
>
> nasiel som, ze "Intel drivers have a feature that allows reduced CPU use
> at the expense of responsiveness" - ktory ovladac teda uprednostnit?
> problemy zatial neboli ziadne


No pokud si to vybavuju, tak ten ovladac primo od Intelu u serverovych
karet podporuje takove veci jako AFT (adaptive fault tolerance), load
balancing a podobne opicky, ale nezkousel jsem, u serveru by se mi to
ovsem hodne libilo. Ale informace je to tak rok stara jeste kdyz to
Intel mel jenom na svych strankach.

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David Rohleder						davro na ics.muni.cz
Institute of Computer Science, Masaryk University
Brno, Czech Republic
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