On 2007/05/04 16:21, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > On 05/04/2007 05:34:16 AM, Jason Dixon wrote: > > The important thing is to get > > quality network interfaces. > > The OpenBSD FAQ makes recommendations and there's > periodically a thread on the openbsd misc discussion > list regarding the question so you can check those > archives.
Trouble is, there are many revisions of chips (and many chips in the same family supported by the same driver) with different bugs/features, and different interactions with different motherboard chipsets, that it's difficult to give a blanket "this works nicely" or "this is junk"... I've had plenty more trouble with expensive em(4) server cards than, say, super-cheap generic sk(4) and re(4). The important thing is to test things well before going into production. Blast them with traffic, monitor things like Ierrs in netstat -ni, packet loss in either direction, errors reported at the switch, then for traffic to the box itself, RTM_LOSING messages in route monitor, TCP errors in netstat -s...
