[Server-devel] Is a USB-Ethernet NIC appropriate for the XS?

[Bryan Berry]

thks, Martin will investigate this
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 15:43 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org> wrote:
> > We want to use the MSI Wind PC for the XS but it has one big problem. It
> > only has 1 on-board NIC and no PCI slots. As you know, the XS requires 2
> > NIC's. We have tried several different USB NIC's and are having serious
> > throughput problems. Is this issue one w/ the NIC or the fact that it is
> > connected by USB?
> 
> My main worry with USB-connected NICs would be reliability. If the NIC
> is reliable, but the throughput a bit below-par, you can still
> probably use it as the WAN NIC -- the throughput is likely to be
> constrained upstream anyway.
> 
>  - When you say throughput problems... what are you getting? How bad
> is it? Even if limited, would it be appropriate for the WAN port?
> 
>  - The problem may be specific to the driver or NIC hardware -- is
> there any discussion on the kernel dev list about it?
> 
>  - The problem may be with the USB bus on the MS Wind, hardware or
> drivers. Perhaps testing for bus throughput or interrupt handling
> helps?
> 
>  - Have you tested the reliability of the devices? This may be a larger problem.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> 
> martin
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Bryan W. Berry
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OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org