[Asterisk-Users] NIC card failure [was: System freeze]

[Scott Laird]

On Feb 10, 2004, at 9:21 AM, Chris Albertson wrote:
>
> (Ethernet does not work well when loaded over 30% of
> it's nominal bandwidth.)

It's a common myth, but it's never really been true, even in the days 
of big shared Ethernet segments.  On a modern switched network, you 
should really be able to get over 95% of the nominal bandwidth, 
although I wouldn't want to run VoIP that close to the edge without a 
lot of QoS tuning.

As for the original topic--it's getting hard to find good 100baseT 
cards these days--I used to buy Intel EtherExpress Pro cards, but 
they're hard to find.  I've had good luck with Intel's GigE cards, and 
they're only $50 or so.  That's not exactly cheap, but they seem to 
work well with Linux.  Most 3com cards are okay, too, but I've had 
better luck with Intel.


Scott