From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 23 01:19:03 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F8C11065676 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:19:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from efinley.lists@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pw0-f44.google.com (mail-pw0-f44.google.com [209.85.160.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44FB98FC0A for ; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:19:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwi15 with SMTP id 15so1255382pwi.3 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:19:03 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=2xCDLb8Pr/e5ngSbuzCBgu4O2NvuYkG9JUMzhc8PeuY=; b=PZwbBEal2/DOQQ0d/oSfSz8fDkP1W5/Oo+v1xMU+BiKnLKJ5y1/LSjvI7mNhq/ekGH Y0Mx4MDE2uL7HwgrxQlPA4WXPUv3vehAerit2mTdi1GKNJQMWeTzVAdYV3T0Yx7ZjvqG B/2NehKlk1Vl3UNYwpENwjiWB+yQ+rZRb/KDo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=jzGdT8MEWPysrse+B+2yZBFM8T57TkrFXqn2KhmFwBHLhD6MN4dwpyeRcWt9Bo47AC qWhJ+V4ZTIKn8iIXZhLSQaDgFM67U0XVlPQnklGNFL20bvn4NitJY9AcBxNbRy6ic1ds 9NyeJgKgxX4EegEo6upVW/ZBzf8coWZbHqnwI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.143.85.8 with SMTP id n8mr2484865wfl.212.1264209542542; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:19:02 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100121112757.A11858@starfire.mn.org> References: <20100121112757.A11858@starfire.mn.org> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:19:02 -0700 Message-ID: <54e63c321001221719n363a0676ga18a82e8cbc8029a@mail.gmail.com> From: Elliot Finley To: John Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendations for NICs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:19:03 -0000 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 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" >