Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:27:57 -0600 From: John <john@starfire.mn.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Recommendations for NICs? Message-ID: <20100121112757.A11858@starfire.mn.org>
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This used to be a hot topic long ago, but now seems to have become rather dormant. Does that mean that all NICs are pretty much commodity with all the good features (unaligned scatter/gather, etc), or does it just mean that machine performance has grown to the point where we don't care anymore? The hardware.html page tells me what may owrk, but not what may work WELL. The on-board NIC uses the fxp driver. Should I look for another card that uses the same driver? Are those good, or are both good and "bad" cards supproted by the same driver? The list doesn't give any of the featuers which used to be assocaited with "good" or "bad" cards - just the names. Thanks! -- John Lind john@starfire.MN.ORG
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