PCI Express 1x NIC
Hello. I'v got an MB which is going to run 6.0/AMD64. It features a PCI Express x1 slot. Has anyone had any experience with such a NIC? Altought this is gonna be Gigabit, I'm more insterested in stability than in performance. Also, slightly OT, is PCI-Express aka PCI-X? Or is it PCI-E? None of the two? :) bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCI Express 1x NIC
PCI Express is NOT PCI-X PCI-X is larger slot usually running faster at 66MHz vs. standard PCI at 33MHz. PCI-X is found mostly on server motherboards. PCI Express is a small connector found on primarily desktop motherboards. -Derek At 10:12 AM 3/2/2006, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. I'v got an MB which is going to run 6.0/AMD64. It features a PCI Express x1 slot. Has anyone had any experience with such a NIC? Altought this is gonna be Gigabit, I'm more insterested in stability than in performance. Also, slightly OT, is PCI-Express aka PCI-X? Or is it PCI-E? None of the two? :) bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCI Express 1x NIC
Hello. I'v got an MB which is going to run 6.0/AMD64. It features a PCI Express x1 slot. Has anyone had any experience with such a NIC? Altought this is gonna be Gigabit, I'm more insterested in stability than in performance. Also, slightly OT, is PCI-Express aka PCI-X? Or is it PCI-E? None of the two? :) bye Thanks av. PCI-X is a parallel bus at 100 or 133mhz PCI-Express is a newer serialized bus with the capabilities of bonding more channels. It comes in the following flavors 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, 32x, and 64x. In testing Raid on ROMB devices we found large increases in performance using PCI-Express over older technologies. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCI Express 1x NIC
Derek Ragona wrote: PCI Express is NOT PCI-X PCI-X is larger slot usually running faster at 66MHz vs. standard PCI at 33MHz. PCI-X is found mostly on server motherboards. PCI Express is a small connector found on primarily desktop motherboards. Ok, thanks a lot. So, does PCI Express=PCI-E hold? Which speed can it attain? Is it supported? Any NIC reccomendations? bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCI Express 1x NIC
Derek Ragona wrote: PCI Express is NOT PCI-X PCI-X is larger slot usually running faster at 66MHz vs. standard PCI at 33MHz. PCI-X is found mostly on server motherboards. PCI Express is a small connector found on primarily desktop motherboards. Ok, thanks a lot. So, does PCI Express=PCI-E hold? Which speed can it attain? Is it supported? Any NIC reccomendations? bye Thanks av. PCI-X can run at 100 and 133mhz but PCI-Express is bonded channels. For instance a PCI-E 1x (1 channel)would be able to move half the data in a given time as a 2x (2 channels)slot. The 1x or 2x channels still operate at the same speed. PCI-E is a whole new technology and rethinking of busses. As far as a recommendation for NIC's, Intel is the one to beat but they are pricey. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCI Express 1x NIC
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:12:30 +0100, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: Hello. I'v got an MB which is going to run 6.0/AMD64. It features a PCI Express x1 slot. Has anyone had any experience with such a NIC? Altought this is gonna be Gigabit, I'm more insterested in stability than in performance. Also, slightly OT, is PCI-Express aka PCI-X? Or is it PCI-E? None of the two? :) For PCI-E, I am using a Broadcom unit that works well under RELENG_6 bge0: Broadcom BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x4001 mem 0xfddf-0xfddf irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci2 miibus0: MII bus on bge0 brgphy0: BCM5750 10/100/1000baseTX PHY on miibus0 brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto bge0: Ethernet address: 00:10:18:14:15:43 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x167714e4 chip=0x167714e4 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'BCM5750A1 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express' class= network subclass = ethernet Mike Tancsa, Sentex communications http://www.sentex.net Providing Internet Access since 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED], (http://www.tancsa.com) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
