man em

     hw.em.rxd
             Number of receive descriptors allocated by the driver.  The
             default value is 256.  The 82542 and 82543-based adapters can
handle up to 256 descriptors, while others can have up to 4096.

     hw.em.txd
             Number of transmit descriptors allocated by the driver.  The
             default value is 256.  The 82542 and 82543-based adapters can
handle up to 256 descriptors, while others can have up to 4096.



and other things.

BTW i'm getting excellent performance from such card (PCIe, 1000Mbps/s) with minimal CPU load

On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Martin Badie wrote:

Hi,

On linux I can change ring parameters like:

/sbin/ethtool -G eth1 rx 4096

      -G --set-ring
             change the rx/tx ring parameters of the specified ethernet device.

how can I do that in FreeBSD so I can get a better performance from my interface

Regards.




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