Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:46:03 -0500 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Matt Staroscik <matt@wrongcrowd.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good gigabit NIC for 4.11? Message-ID: <B3354D03-C2CC-41BD-9D2B-A89EBB459F96@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20051223193237.GA80590@wrongcrowd.com> References: <20051223193237.GA80590@wrongcrowd.com>
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On Dec 23, 2005, at 2:32 PM, Matt Staroscik wrote: > I'm looking for a basic PCI 1-port card with jumbo frame support if > possible--I can live without it. Either way, stability is much more > important than performance. 4.11 ought to work well with both the Broadcom and Intel GB NICs. However, there is little point to trying to use GB and jumbo frames on a NIC in a standard 33MHz PCI slot; unless you have PCI Express slots available or a GB card integrated with the chipset, the PCI bus will bottleneck the system from doing much better than a 100Mbs NIC would perform... -- -Chuck
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