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<H1>Linux Ethernet-Howto</H1>
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<H2>by Paul Gortmaker</H2>v2.9, Aug 25, 2003
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<EM> This is the Ethernet-Howto, which is a compilation of information
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about which ethernet devices can be used for Linux, and how to
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set them up. Note that this Howto is focused
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on the hardware and low level driver aspect of the ethernet cards,
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and does not cover the software end of things like <CODE>ifconfig</CODE>
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and <CODE>route</CODE>. That information is found in various other Linux documentation.</EM>
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<H2><A NAME="toc1">1.</A> <A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-1.html">Introduction</A></H2>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.1">1.1 New Versions of this Document</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.2">1.2 Using the Ethernet-Howto</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.3">1.3 What do I need to to get ethernet working?</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.4">1.4 HELP - It doesn't work!</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.5">1.5 Type of cable that your card should support</A>
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<H2><A NAME="toc2">2.</A> <A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-2.html">Frequently Asked Questions</A></H2>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.1">2.1 How do I tell Linux what driver to use?</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.2">2.2 What card should I buy for Linux?</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.3">2.3 Alpha Drivers -- Getting and Using them</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.4">2.4 Using More than one Ethernet Card per Machine</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.5">2.5 The <CODE>ether=</CODE> thing didn't do anything for me. Why?</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.6">2.6 Problems with NE1000 / NE2000 cards (and clones)</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.7">2.7 Problems with SMC Ultra/EtherEZ and WD80*3 cards</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.8">2.8 Problems with 3Com cards</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.9">2.9 FAQs Not Specific to Any Card.</A>
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<H2><A NAME="toc3">3.</A> <A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-3.html">Performance Tips</A></H2>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1">3.1 General Concepts</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.2">3.2 ISA Cards and ISA Bus Speed</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.3">3.3 Setting the TCP Rx Window</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.4">3.4 Increasing NFS performance</A>
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<H2><A NAME="toc4">4.</A> <A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html">Vendor/Manufacturer/Model Specific Information</A></H2>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.1">4.1 3Com</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.2">4.2 Accton</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.3">4.3 Adaptec</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.4">4.4 Allied Telesyn/Telesis</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.5">4.5 AMD / Advanced Micro Devices</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.6">4.6 Ansel Communications</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.7">4.7 Apricot</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.8">4.8 Arcnet</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.9">4.9 Boca Research</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.10">4.10 Broadcom</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.11">4.11 Cabletron</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.12">4.12 Cogent</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.13">4.13 Compaq</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.14">4.14 Danpex</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.15">4.15 Davicom</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.16">4.16 D-Link</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.17">4.17 DFI</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.18">4.18 Digital / DEC</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.19">4.19 Farallon</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.20">4.20 Fujitsu</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.21">4.21 Hewlett Packard</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.22">4.22 IBM / International Business Machines</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.23">4.23 ICL Ethernet Cards</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.24">4.24 Intel Ethernet Cards</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.25">4.25 Kingston</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.26">4.26 LinkSys</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.27">4.27 Microdyne (Eagle)</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.28">4.28 Mylex</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.29">4.29 Myson</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.30">4.30 National Semiconductor</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.31">4.31 Novell Ethernet, NExxxx and associated clones.</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.32">4.32 Netgear</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.33">4.33 Proteon</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.34">4.34 Pure Data</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.35">4.35 Racal-Interlan</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.36">4.36 RealTek</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.37">4.37 Sager</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.38">4.38 Schneider & Koch</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.39">4.39 SEEQ</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.40">4.40 SiS (Silicon Integrated Systems) </A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.41">4.41 SMC (Standard Microsystems Corp.) </A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.42">4.42 Sundance</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.43">4.43 SysKonnect</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.44">4.44 Texas Instruments</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.45">4.45 Thomas Conrad</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.46">4.46 VIA</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.47">4.47 Western Digital</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.48">4.48 Winbond</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.49">4.49 Xircom</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.50">4.50 Zenith</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.51">4.51 Znyx</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.52">4.52 Identifying an Unknown Card</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.53">4.53 Drivers for Non-Ethernet Devices</A>
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</UL>
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<H2><A NAME="toc5">5.</A> <A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-5.html">Cables, Coax, Twisted Pair</A></H2>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.1">5.1 Thin Ethernet (thinnet)</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.2">5.2 Twisted Pair</A>
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<H2><A NAME="toc6">6.</A> <A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-6.html">Software Configuration and Card Diagnostics</A></H2>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.1">6.1 Configuration Programs for Ethernet Cards</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.2">6.2 Diagnostic Programs for Ethernet Cards</A>
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</UL>
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<H2><A NAME="toc7">7.</A> <A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-7.html">Technical Information</A></H2>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.1">7.1 Programmed I/O vs. Shared Memory vs. DMA</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.2">7.2 Performance Implications of Bus Width</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.3">7.3 Performance Implications of Zero Copy</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.4">7.4 Performance Implications of Hardware Checksums</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.5">7.5 Performance Implications of NAPI (Rx interrupt mitigation)</A>
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</UL>
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<H2><A NAME="toc8">8.</A> <A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-8.html">Miscellaneous.</A></H2>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-8.html#ss8.1">8.1 Transmit FIFO Buffers and Underrun Errors</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-8.html#ss8.2">8.2 Passing Ethernet Arguments to the Kernel</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-8.html#ss8.3">8.3 Using the Ethernet Drivers as Modules</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-8.html#ss8.4">8.4 Related Documentation</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-8.html#ss8.5">8.5 Disclaimer and Copyright</A>
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<LI><A HREF="Ethernet-HOWTO-8.html#ss8.6">8.6 Closing</A>
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