Re: Large scale transparent proxying

On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 07:29:14AM +0100, Simon Rainey wrote:
> We're suffering from poor throughput on loaded boxes when using the Intel
> EtherExpress 10/100 under Linux. There seem to be other problems with that
> NIC too, such as lockups in the presence of multicast traffic. I'm about to
> replace all the Intel EtherExpress 10/100 NICs with a NIC based on the DEC
> Tulip, which appears to perform well under Linux.

I believe that's specific to the Linux drivers. *BSD (BSD/OS, FreeBSD,
NetBSD) systems seem to have no trouble with the EtherExpress cards.

  -- Clifton

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