Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 20:25:27 -0500 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Preferred Gigabit interfaces for -CURRENT Message-ID: <15939.2823.45299.471388@canoe.velocet.net>
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We're about to make the switch from 100M interfaces to GigE interfaces for our transit routers ... which are FreeBSD-5.0 based SMP (Athlon) boxes. Our current favorite card is the intel i82559-based fxp cards. They handle the load best on our testing of 100M cards. Remember that our load is large and small packets and that hardware checksums are not a win (although hardware vlans are). So... I need to know what GigE chipsets I should test. I recently tested Intel GigE cards ... with dismal results... less than half the packets-per-second on the (otherwise) same hardware. Small packets (as in DOS attacks) are a real concern here. I believe that someone here recomended Tigon III based cards ... but I was recently looking through 5.0-RELEASE's hardware notes and couldn't find any mention of Tigon III. A hint on where to buy the cards may be helpful _and_ I'd like to know if the choice might be different for -STABLE (as some of our routers run -STABLE). Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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