Apologies upfront for the vague respose., but it may be a start. I was looking for the same thing about 6 months until I came accross a great web site that had benchmarked a stack of different GIGE cards: Syskonnect, 3Com the lot. (all I can remember of the site was that it was done at a US University. If I find the site again I'll post it). Syskonnect got top marks-but very expensive ($500) Best price/performance was the 3Com 3C996B-T ($100). I replaced all the myrinet with the 3Com's and they've been excellent. Instantly recognized under redhat 7.3, and driver upgrades were a breeze. Steve The upshot was: syskonect Malay Kumar Basu <curiouser@ccmb.res.in> Sent by: bioclusters-admin@bioinformatics.org 07/24/2003 11:41 AM Please respond to bioclusters@bioinformatics.org To bioclusters@bioinformatics.org cc Subject [Bioclusters] Which gigabit card? Hello Cluster gurus: I have almost finalized buying of hardware for my cluster except the gigabit ethernet card. I want to install Redhat 8/9 for my cluster. Which gigabit network card should I go for. Can anyone recommend a particular card, which should install hassle free. -Malay _______________________________________________ Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters@bioinformatics.org https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters