On 26 Apr 1998 12:17:25 +0800, Michael O'Reilly wrote:
>> We are experimenting with a dual LAN card to handle the incoming
>> requests via one interface and forward the requests via other interface,
>> to alleviate the interface congestion.
>
>If you're running full duplex, that won't be a consideration I should
>think. And keeping it on the one card will reduce the number of
>interrupts.
>
Be very careful with full duplex. Most combinations of switch/NIC do
not work as well together as vendors would like you to think. You can
stress test it with 2-3 clients and have no problem, but as soon as
half a dozen clients start stress testing to one server you can often
get better performance from half duplex.
Received on Sun Apr 26 1998 - 06:36:41 MDT
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