In recent testing with 8-Stable, we couldn't get our Intel cards to push more than 450Mbps. We put some Broadcom cards in and we can get 980Mbps.
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:27 AM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > This used to be a hot topic long ago, but now seems to have become > rather dormant. Does that mean that all NICs are pretty much > commodity with all the good features (unaligned scatter/gather, > etc), or does it just mean that machine performance has grown to > the point where we don't care anymore? The hardware.html page > tells me what may owrk, but not what may work WELL. The on-board > NIC uses the fxp driver. Should I look for another card that uses > the same driver? Are those good, or are both good and "bad" cards > supproted by the same driver? The list doesn't give any of the > featuers which used to be assocaited with "good" or "bad" cards - > just the names. > > Thanks! > -- > > John Lind > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > [email protected]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
