Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:47:10 +0200 From: Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu> To: Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Hooman Fazaeli <ebastan10@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: broadcom 57710 support Message-ID: <4A661B3E.1060007@fsn.hu> In-Reply-To: <634188.92246.qm@web63905.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <634188.92246.qm@web63905.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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Barney Cordoba wrote: >> A possible cause -at least for me- is that HP switched from >> the Gigabit Broadcoms for these 10GE versions. So newer >> machines (for example the HP BL460c G6) come with Broadcom >> 57711 instead of the 57xx ones (supported by bge and bce). >> >> > > I wouldn't use a "new" server that doesn't support Nehelam. You're better > off getting a 1U server that has exactly what you want in it, rather than > having to hope that whoever happens to write a driver for this new part > does a good job. Even then you're stuck with last year's CPU model, > guaranteeing 20% less performance. > The BL460c G6 supports Nehalem (Intel 55xx), and 1U server instead of a blade is all what I want.
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