Please tell me what pcix network cards work with MT.
this is not about pci, pci-x and pci-e, this is about card chipset you use. We have tried intel gigabit (can't remember exact chipset, there are too many of them but they use one unified driver, e1000.o) and marvel chipsets:
DEVICE VENDOR NAME IRQ
0 02:0b.0 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev: 1) 11
1 02:09.0 Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev: 12) 5
2 02:05.0 3Com Corporation 3c940 10/100/1000Base-T [Marvell] (rev: 18) 7
3 01:00.0 STMicroelectronics STG4000 [3D Prophet Kyro Series] (rev: 15) 10
4 00:1f.3 Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev: 2) 10
5 00:1f.1 Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev: 2) 0
6 00:1f.0 Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev: 2) 0
7 00:1e.0 Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev: 194) 0
8 00:1d.7 Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev: 2) 11
9 00:1d.3 Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev: 2) 10
10 00:1d.2 Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 (rev: 2) 5
11 00:1d.1 Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev: 2) 3
12 00:1d.0 Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev: 2) 10
13 00:01.0 Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev: 2) 0
14 00:00.0 Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev: 2) 0
actually, "02:05.0 3Com Corporation 3c940 10/100/1000Base-T [Marvell] (rev: 18) " is pci-e based broadcom. While testing, we were able to do around 800Mbit/s TCP throughput test between two servers (not through them as recommended, but from first to another so they were loaded with bandwidth-test packet generation also).
I have also tried Realtek gigabit interfaces, but they were 8169 PCI based. Should you find any pci-e/pci-x realtek, they will work (use at least version 2.9.11 due to updated realtek driver). Realtek has inferior throughput, we got little bit over 300Mbps only.
Hi,
Do anybody use pcix wireless network card with mt? which type?
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