Re: Route cache performance under stress

On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Ben Greear wrote:

One waring about e1000's, make sure you have active airflow across the NICs
if you put two together.  Otherwise, buy a dual port NIC...it has a single
chip and you will have less cooling issues.

I liked how easy the e1000's are to come by; even more so than the 3com
cards.  Intel seems to be grabbing market share by agressive pricing
(bought 4 last week for C$50 ea), so almost every computer equipment
distributor carries the intel cards.

Since I already have the single-port cards, I guess I'll install them with
a couple empty PCI slots between them to help with the cooling.

-Ralph