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Date:      Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:31:39 +0200 (CEST)
From:      "Julien Gabel" <jpeg@thilelli.net>
To:        sean@mcneil.com
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Subject:   Re: realtek performance (was Re: good ATI chipset results)
Message-ID:  <62071.192.168.1.20.1129228299.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net>
In-Reply-To: <200510131149.24411.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <6.2.3.4.0.20051013090818.07a5c9a0@64.7.153.2> <1129216390.8681.6.camel@server.mcneil.com> <200510131149.24411.jhb@freebsd.org>

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> On Thursday 13 October 2005 11:13 am, Sean McNeil wrote:
>> On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 09:17 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>>> Havent really seen anyone else use this board, but I have had good
>>> luck with it so far
>>>
>>> http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?DetailID=506&MenuID=90&LanID=0
>>>
>>> Its a micro ATX formfactor with built in video and the onboard NIC is
>>> a realtek.  (Although its not the fastest NIC, its driver is stable
>>> and mature-- especially compared to the headaches people seem to have
>>> with the NVIDIA NICs.)

I just want to say that there is some discussion in the past about the
RealTek 8169S - not on amd64 plateform though (x86) - but it seems not
so stable in all configuration.  See the ml archives for references, and
the PR kern/80005.

>> Is this the RealTek 8169S Single-chip Gigabit Ethernet?
>>
>> For those interested, here are some changes I always use to increase the
>> performance of the above NIC.  With these mods, I can stream over 20
>> MBps video multicast and do other stuff over the network without issues.
>> Without the changes, xmit is horrible with severe UDP packet loss.

-- 
-jpeg.




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