On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:09:09PM +0100, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > Henning Brauer wrote: > >On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:56:35PM -0000, Dom De Vitto wrote: > >>With GigE NICs you are generally talking quality > >that is no longer true. > >Realtek now makes gigE chips... > hmm from what I have read and heard (mostly Linux users) this one > (rtl8169) should actually perform extremly well - hard to tell and > believe for sure without an openbsd driver though ;-).
well I dunno, I have none of that - tho I am skeptical. and wether it performs well on an otherwise idle 5 GHz 4way Xeon isn't of particular interest. somewhere the price must come from... we'll see. others have fuckups as well. nge, for example, is only good if you don't run jumbo frames. and i suspect it still ti be worse than em but didn't profile. -- Henning Brauer, BS Web Services, http://bsws.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
