From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 30 23:55:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E19F16A41F for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:55:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from nic.ach.sch.gr (nic.sch.gr [194.63.238.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E63643D46 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:55:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (qmail 5061 invoked by uid 207); 30 Aug 2005 23:55:37 -0000 Received: from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr by nic by uid 201 with qmail-scanner-1.21 (sophie: 3.04/2.19/3.81. Clear:RC:1(81.186.70.81):. Processed in 0.531753 secs); 30 Aug 2005 23:55:37 -0000 Received: from dialup81.ach.sch.gr (HELO gothmog.gr) ([81.186.70.81]) (envelope-sender ) by nic.sch.gr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 30 Aug 2005 23:55:33 -0000 Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7UNFwjl001874 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 02:15:58 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j7UNFwEF001873; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 02:15:58 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 02:15:58 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Emanuel Strobl Message-ID: <20050830231558.GA1820@gothmog.gr> References: <200508310046.20808@harrymail> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200508310046.20808@harrymail> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GbE NICs besides em (recommendation wanted) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:55:43 -0000 On 2005-08-31 00:46, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > Hello, > > I'm quiet disappointed with the em nics and wanted to try some other GigaBit > NICs (1000baseTX only). AFAIK there are re, sk, bge driven cards. Which > doesn't saturate a PIII@800 at 200mbit/s with interrupt load (like em does)? > I heard that the re is way better than the not so well rl and although much > cheaper than em more efficient. What about bge? Or sk? Any comments > welcome, also if I missed a supported family (TX only) I recently bought a re(4) NIC to replace the unsupported on-board NIC of a motherboard. I've only had access to 100 Mbit/s connections so far though, so I can't tell for sure how it behaves in Gbit/s links. FWIW, it works like a charm in the 100 Mbit/s network I've used it so far.