From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 17 7:28:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B679937B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:28:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.sandvine.com (sandvine.com [199.243.201.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B88343E9C for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:28:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from don@sandvine.com) Received: by mail.sandvine.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <42S94926>; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:28:51 -0400 Message-ID: From: Don Bowman To: 'Jamie Heckford' , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Compaq GIGA NIC Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:28:50 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message