Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 06:41:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com> To: Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Recommendation for 1000BASE-SX card? Message-ID: <20060601134124.85131.qmail@web33302.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <447ED890.1030104@ant.uni-bremen.de>
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--- Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> wrote: > Danial Thom wrote: > > The intel cards that use the EM driver are > the > > best performing cards in FreeBSD that we've > > tested. We've test cards made by the same > company > > that use the broadcom controllers and the > intel > > cards are substantially better (ie use less > CPU > > passing the same amount of traffic). > > > > Be careful using on-board controllers. > Usually > > vendors, for some reason, don't wire them to > the > > pci-x bus. Most supermicro boards wire the em > > controllers to the 32bit/33mhz bus and the > tyan > > and supermicro opteron boards we've tested > wire > > the broadcoms to a shared 1x PCI-E, both of > which > > will not only give you poor performance, but > are > > not capable of running full gigabit rates. > > > > DT > > > To clarify, I'd recommend trying an intel PCI-X copper card with the convertor. The bge driver is garbage and is likely at least part of your problem with the convertor. DT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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