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 just took a closer look at my e1000's.  They've got a small RC82540EM
bga chip on them, manufactured 25th week of '02. If these things do get
hot enough to cause problems why wouldn't Intel have them manufactured
with heatsinks attached?

-Ralph