Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:29:56 +0100 From: Rink Springer <rink@il.fontys.nl> To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Matt Staroscik <matt@wrongcrowd.com> Subject: Re: Good gigabit NIC for 4.11? Message-ID: <20051223222956.GB55809@il.fontys.nl> In-Reply-To: <5B2BFA0C-B1D5-45A5-AC9C-74A29BCD3113@mac.com> References: <20051223193237.GA80590@wrongcrowd.com> <B3354D03-C2CC-41BD-9D2B-A89EBB459F96@mac.com> <20051223214718.GA55809@il.fontys.nl> <5B2BFA0C-B1D5-45A5-AC9C-74A29BCD3113@mac.com>
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> backplane bus to handle that kinda bandwidth, whereas a consumer > grade motherboard where the GB NIC is hanging off the PCI bus rather > than being integrated into the northbridge is not going to do nearly > so well. Indeed, this is why I specifically said: desktop NIC's... my onboard bge(4)'s on a Tyan K8SE and onboard em(4)'s on an ASUS PCH-DR all get much higher performance than the so-called GB NICs on desktop boards. Gotta love marketing :) But I guess this is getting offtopic ... -- Rink P.W. Springer - http://rink.nu "Richter: Tribute? You steal men's souls, and make them your slaves! Dracula: Perhaps the same could be said of all religions." - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
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