Re: Sniffer nic

From: Mike Silbersack (silby@silby.com)
Date: 10/11/02 

Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 23:36:02 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To: twig les <twigles@yahoo.com>

On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, twig les wrote:

> Nope, nothing like that. Just some good old L3-7
> NIDS. A couple things I was wondering though.... Is
> anyone running the "ANA-62011 64-bit single port
> 10/100baseTX adapter" from Adaptec? It's supported by
> 4.6 release, but I won't be on site for the
> installation so I'm looking for easy installation
> here. This leads to the second question which is:
> What kind of performance increase will I see with a
> 64-bit 100BT nic vs the same card running in a 32-bit
> slot? I'm tryig to figure out if it's worth the extra
> $30 before I tell my boss to get it (well...ask him).
>
> Thnx for the answers so far though.

You're best off going with a more commonly used card. That adaptec cards
sound rather rare, so it's more likely that the driver is stale. If you
want a NIC which will last into the future, get one of the Intel Gigabit
cards - the driver is officially maintained by an employee of Intel, so
you have someone to yell at if it breaks. :)

(And Luigi claims that it performs well too...)

Mike "Silby" Silbersack

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