[geeks] Linux disparity

[Mike Meredith]

On Wednesday 18 December 2002 2:47 pm, nick at snowman.net wrote:
> Erm, they're about the most reliable, best supported card I've ever
> run across.  If they do put an extra .005% of load on the server I'll
> live with that for stability.

I've been racking my brains trying to figure out where my allergy to 
using 3com NICs in servers comes from and I can't remember. But I do 
know that 3com cards get mentioned on the Snort users list as causing 
problems (dropping packets).

If a 3com puts an extra .005% of load on the server *per packet*, what 
kind of load are you going to see on a server processing 120Mbps over 3 
NICs ? Most servers won't see that kind of traffic, but some do (that 
120Mbps figure is from one of my servers).