[Asterisk-Users] Lower cost router suitable for VOIP ?

[Scott Laird]

On Sep 3, 2004, at 3:17 PM, Chris Shaw wrote:
>
> The drivers have gotten much better, but yes, up until about 2.4.22 it 
> used
> to hard lock my server every 24 hours or so under heavy packet loads...
> Remember what I said about it being a software bridge... Intel cards in
> general are not known for being CPU-Friendly...

That's not my experience.  I don't remember any eepro100 driver 
lock-ups, and I have at least 1000 card-years of experience with them, 
ranging back from 2.0.x to 2.6.x.  We replaced all of our 3com cards 
due to driver problems (circa 1998), but the Intel cards Just Worked.  
We never noticed a CPU load problem, but we were only rarely concerned 
with CPU load, anyway.

> Really the tulip based cards are the fastest I've seen, I know they're 
> kinda
> cheap boards usually but they scream performance-wise...

I've always been nervous about Tulip clones.  I have a half-dozen 21143 
boards at home that are great.


Scott