From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 21 17:05:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79B1916A494 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:05:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pgiessel@mac.com) Received: from achilles.leela.ws (achilles.leela.ws [66.207.162.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 913AE44097 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:57:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pgiessel@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.0.193] ([158.145.111.132]) (authenticated bits=0) by achilles.leela.ws (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kALGvlLL016729 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:57:59 -0900 (AKST) (envelope-from pgiessel@mac.com) Message-ID: <4563300A.2050408@mac.com> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:57:46 -0900 From: "Peter A. Giessel" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frank Bonnet References: <4562CF3D.1070203@esiee.fr> <4562FD87.1080105@wmptl.com> <4563005E.7010807@esiee.fr> In-Reply-To: <4563005E.7010807@esiee.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freeBSD Subject: Re: NIC driver question 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: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:05:40 -0000 On 2006/11/21 4:34, Frank Bonnet seems to have typed: > Nathan Vidican wrote: [snip] >> few intel cards utilizing the 'em', but nothing real extensive or [snip] > I'll need the gigabit X 2 as we extensively use the imap protocol > ( 500 , 600 imap processes during work hours ) > > thanks for your feedback > I had a few problems with the bge card before 6.1 fixed some bugs. I would go with the em cards if given a choice. Intel develops their own drivers for the em cards, I don't believe that Broadcom does the same for their bge cards. I believe that bge is a third party effort, and while they do an extraordinary job, they don't have the same "inside knowledge" that intel has when they develop their em cards. man em: *** QUOTE *** AUTHORS The em driver was written by Intel Corporation . *** END QUOTE *** man bge: *** QUOTE *** AUTHORS The bge driver was written by Bill Paul . *** END QUOTE ***