Re: GbE NICs besides em (recommendation wanted)

2005-08-31 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 8/31/05, Emanuel Strobl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm quiet disappointed with the em nics and wanted to try some other GigaBit NICs (1000baseTX only). AFAIK there are re, sk, bge driven cards. Which doesn't saturate a [EMAIL PROTECTED] at 200mbit/s with interrupt load (like em

Re: GbE NICs besides em (recommendation wanted)

2005-08-31 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 31. August 2005 10:51 CEST schrieb Dmitry Mityugov: On 8/31/05, Emanuel Strobl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm quiet disappointed with the em nics and wanted to try some other GigaBit NICs (1000baseTX only). AFAIK there are re, sk, bge driven cards. Which doesn't

Re: GbE NICs besides em (recommendation wanted)

2005-08-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
Emanuel Strobl wrote: Thank you for the offer, but I thought people had some simple test results in mind. If you next time use rdump or large NFS transfers to another GbE connected (and fast enough) box just watch the system load (I use systat -vm 1) and see what card causes what interrupt

GbE NICs besides em (recommendation wanted)

2005-08-30 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Hello, I'm quiet disappointed with the em nics and wanted to try some other GigaBit NICs (1000baseTX only). AFAIK there are re, sk, bge driven cards. Which doesn't saturate a [EMAIL PROTECTED] at 200mbit/s with interrupt load (like em does)? I heard that the re is way better than the not so

Re: GbE NICs besides em (recommendation wanted)

2005-08-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-31 00:46, Emanuel Strobl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm quiet disappointed with the em nics and wanted to try some other GigaBit NICs (1000baseTX only). AFAIK there are re, sk, bge driven cards. Which doesn't saturate a [EMAIL PROTECTED] at 200mbit/s with interrupt load (like