The bus speed on a P166 isn't fast enough to support a gig network card.
If I remember correctly it can barley support a 100M card. Even the
newer machines PCI bus will not support the full 1G from the cards, but
they do get very close though.
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Subject: Gigabit on a dinosaur?
Today I bought a couple of Trendnet TEG-PCITXR gigabit ethernet cards.
I put one in my windows box and one in my linux box. The linux box is a
dinosaur. It's a P166 running slackware 10.2 2.4.31 kernel. DMESG
shows the card is correctly identified and shows the following:
eth1: Auto-negotiation Enabled.
eth1: 1000Mbps Full-duplex operation.
I watched iptraf as I copied a file from the windows box to the server.
Iptraf was showing the incoming rate on eth1 at around 28000
kbits/sec.
Should I be getting better speeds than this or is this all I can expect
from my dinosaur.
Thanks
Jim in Phoenix
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