On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 05:44:57PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
On Wednesday 04 August 2004 16:37, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 22:29, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > Arjan, I've not seen a comment from you on this. Can you please comment,
> > even if the comment is for me to just go away with my ATM junk? :-)
> ATM is of, ehm, mixed quality. Some parts are ok, some are
> undermaintained it seems and might pose a security risk. Note that the
> current erratum kernel has ATM at least partially turned on but I would
> appreciate feedback on which hardware works to be able to make a more
> informed decision about what to enable exactly... "it compiles" vs
"it
> gives scary warnings" isn't the bes ;)
First, thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to reply.
Second, the HE drivers seem to be well-maintained, with Chas Williams being
active in patching as well as on the linux-atm list. The HE622 is the
hardware I am using currently in a couple of Dell 2.4GHz Xeon servers
(ServerWorks chipset). I have done some stress testing using ttcp amongst
others, and the HE is giving high throughput numbers on both the FC1 kernel
and the FC2 kernel (my custom compiled version, based on the last production
erratum). I have stress-tested over several hours, and system load stays
pretty low, and things aren't throwing warnings or 'scary' errors.
In the interest of helping the project, I will be testing other adapters
shortly. Mike Westall of Clemson University can speak to the Interphase and
ok how about this; can you check the kernels we ship occasionally and give
me suggestions about *exact* config changes that would improve atm support.
Like "it's better to turn THIS option on as module" etc.
you know ATM a lot more than I do...