Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 02:15:58 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GbE NICs besides em (recommendation wanted) Message-ID: <20050830231558.GA1820@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <200508310046.20808@harrymail> References: <200508310046.20808@harrymail>
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On 2005-08-31 00:46, Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm quiet disappointed with the em nics and wanted to try some other GigaBit > NICs (1000baseTX only). AFAIK there are re, sk, bge driven cards. Which > doesn't saturate a PIII@800 at 200mbit/s with interrupt load (like em does)? > I heard that the re is way better than the not so well rl and although much > cheaper than em more efficient. What about bge? Or sk? Any comments > welcome, also if I missed a supported family (TX only) I recently bought a re(4) NIC to replace the unsupported on-board NIC of a motherboard. I've only had access to 100 Mbit/s connections so far though, so I can't tell for sure how it behaves in Gbit/s links. FWIW, it works like a charm in the 100 Mbit/s network I've used it so far.
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