[ale] 3 days of 3+ hrs Comcast Outages!

[Solomon Peachy]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 01:59:38PM -0400, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> Not all distros include the driver with this USB3-to-ethernet adapter.
> Ubuntu Server doesn?t, but the installer and desktop distros do, for
> example.

That's... just sad.

> No jumbo frames.  Tried those years ago, but it broke NTP on the network
> and 920Gbps is plenty fast.

Jumbo frames aren't for throughput so much as to reduce the interrupt 
load on the systems, but with multi-processor systems being the norm 
now, that's not as useful as it used to be.
  
But even today lots of hardware still doesn't handle Jumbo properly.

> and $25 for an Intel PRO/1000 with ZERO driver hassles - they get my
> extra $5 every time.  Not all PRO/1000s are the same either. There were
> some made in Mexico which would lock up if some specially crafted SIP
> traffic was seen

It's not the location of manufacture, but rather due to there genuinely 
being many major (and even more minor) variations of the Intel ethernet 
ASICs over the years.  Notably, the server-targeted PRO/1000 family was 
quite different (and more expensive) than the client-targeted PRO/1000s.  
The former supported more PHYs and fancier offload support which took a 
few revisions to get right..

Anyway.  Back to lurking..

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy        		       pizza at shaftnet dot org
Delray Beach, FL                          ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
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