----- Original Message ----- | Hi All, | | I'm looking for a new 1Gb or 10Gb PCI-E adaptor with fibre | connections. Can anyone make some recommendations on a good performing | adapter under OpenBSD. I see there has been a lot of work going on | with the Intel ix(4) based adapters would these be the recommended | cards to use in the 10Gb department? If so what have the developers | been using to test/develop this driver with?
Anyone have any comments/problems with the following cards? The following cards look to be well supported. I'm specifically talking about the Intel Gigabit EF Dual port SX adaptor based on the Intel 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller. This card supports full hardware virtualization which the others don't, so I'd likely go with it even though OpenBSD doesn't do H/W virtualization. http://www.intel.com/Products/Server/Adapters/Gb-EF-Dual-Port/Gb-EF-Dual-Port-overview.htm For 10GbE the following adaptor looks to be quite good and supported using the Intel 82599 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller http://www.intel.com/Products/Server/Adapters/X520/ethernet-X520-overview.htm -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier
