tlug: Re: tlug-digest V1 #1282

[Tony Laszlo <laszlo@example.com>]

> From: Christopher Sekiya <wileyc@example.com>
> > The cards are Corega Ether II PCC-T cards.
> 
> They are cheap ne2000 clones.
> 
> > Or that they do work but they're complete pieces of crap?
> 
> They work.  As with all ne2000 clones, they're also complete pieces of
> crap.
>

One of the cheapest ethernet cards in Akihabara. 
Wonder why you call them crap - will it have a short life or 
not perform well? I have one of these up and running with TL4.0 Chinese. 
It works well but just a bit of tweaking is needed to get the system to 
recognize it. 

IP masquerading is up and running at my place, with a Mac 
now able to browse, ftp, etc., through the Linux box's 
ppp connection. Today, I'm very happy that I took the Linux 
plunge. 

couple of questions: 

1) does irqtune really improve performance very much? 
I have these two computers pulling on the Internet 
through a 28.8 ppp connection; noticeably slow when 
one of the computers is downloading a file or using 
realaudio. 
irqtune complained that modutils were old when I 
tried to use it. Is it worth replacing the modutils 
and will such a move screw up something else if I'm 
not lucky? 

2) I'm getting "rpc - sendmsg error 101" occasionally. 
will this rear up and bite me if I ignore it? :) 

3) any online documents that will help me get the 
mac user set up to send/receive email through ip masquerading? 
I haven't seen much on this in the ip masquerade - related 
materials. Perhaps it's so easy it doesn't merit 
documentation (I hope)? 

 

 
 


 

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