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Date:      Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:28:50 -0400
From:      Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com>
To:        'Jamie Heckford' <jamie@jamiesdomain.org.uk>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Compaq GIGA NIC
Message-ID:  <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533701022CB1@mail.sandvine.com>

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> From: Jamie Heckford [mailto:jamie@jamiesdomain.org.uk]
> 
> Urgh - The broadcom chips perform terribly!
> 
> We put Intel cards into the riser slots on all our compaq 
> servers...... I would recommend you do the same!
> 

I'm curious why you say that. I have a large number of both
broadcom (bcm5701-based netxtreme) and intel (82544 and
82546 based). The broadcom cards seem to perform well, we
are able to achieve ~950Mbps of UDP traffic with iperf,
and nearly the same (~890) with TCP. The interrupt rate
stays lows (it has an interrupt amalgamator).

--don (don@sandvine.com www.sandvine.com)

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