[geeks] Opinion: RTL8169 vs. Intel PCI e1000?

[hike]

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net> wrote:

> On 1/3/2011 2:41 AM, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > The new ohno.mrbill.net has (and is using) a Realtek 8169-chipset
> onboard
> > gigabit network interface.
> >
> > Should I look into finding a PCI Intel e1000 card to use instead, and
> > disable the onboard?  The box isn't bandwidth or CPU-constrained at all,
> > but I want to run the very best system that I can, while I'm in a period
> > when the occasional reboot is allowed for tweaking. 8-)
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Bill
> >
>
> AFAIK the later Realteks are OK, but the earlier ones that were 10/100
> were very crappy.  They generated 1 interrupt per packet and had small
> buffers.
>
> --Patrick
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My personal preference is the Intel LAN card.  They work with every OS that
I have used and drivers have been easy to find.

The Realteks have worked well but I have not used these with Linux, etc.
 Only Windows OS.