Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:19:02 -0700 From: Elliot Finley <efinley.lists@gmail.com> To: John <john@starfire.mn.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendations for NICs? Message-ID: <54e63c321001221719n363a0676ga18a82e8cbc8029a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100121112757.A11858@starfire.mn.org> References: <20100121112757.A11858@starfire.mn.org>
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In recent testing with 8-Stable, we couldn't get our Intel cards to push more than 450Mbps. We put some Broadcom cards in and we can get 980Mbps. On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:27 AM, John <john@starfire.mn.org> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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