In recent testing with 8-Stable, we couldn't get our Intel cards to push
more than 450Mbps. We put some Broadcom cards in and we can get 980Mbps.
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:27 AM, John wrote:
> This used to be a hot topic long ago, but now seems to have become
> rather dormant. Does that mean
C. C. Tang writes:
> >Let me add my vote for Intel: I have a dual-port Pro/1000, and
> > the thing is a rock:
>
> I am planning to get a Pro/1000 MT dual port card, do you know
> that will it works well in 32bit PCI slot on FreeBSD?
I have one of these:
Pro/1000 GT Dual
Let me add my vote for Intel: I have a dual-port Pro/1000, and
the thing is a rock:
I am planning to get a Pro/1000 MT dual port card, do you know that will
it works well in 32bit PCI slot on FreeBSD?
Thanks,
C.C.
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Personally, I've had the best success with fxp and em cards (Intel), and the
worst with broadcom-based on-board nics, but have tried and worked with many
different cards over the years on FreeBSD. Hands-down though, I prefer
Intel's NIC offerings.
IIRC - Intel contributed to the development and su
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:20:34PM -0600, John wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:12:29AM -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> >
> > Intel (fxp, em) and Broadcom (bce, bge) make fine NICs, and the
> > older DEC/Intel 21x4x Tulip series (dc/de) was quite good as well.
> > The Marvel Yukon (msk) and nVidia
On Jan 21, 2010, at 10:20 AM, John wrote:
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> Thanks! That's perfect. I have a chance to buy a few Intel Pro
> 10/100 (fxp) cards. I guess I'll take it!
If you don't need gigabit, the fxp cards are great-- very reliable and some
even support interrupt mitigation in firmware (which genera
Chuck Swiger writes:
> > This used to be a hot topic long ago, but now seems to have become
> > rather dormant.
>
> Intel (fxp, em) and Broadcom (bce, bge) make fine NICs, and the
> older DEC/Intel 21x4x Tulip series (dc/de) was quite good as
> well.
Let me add my vote for Intel: I
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:12:29AM -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Hi--
>
> On Jan 21, 2010, at 9:27 AM, John wrote:
> > This used to be a hot topic long ago, but now seems to have become
> > rather dormant. Does that mean that all NICs are pretty much
> > commodity with all the good features (unali
Hi--
On Jan 21, 2010, at 9:27 AM, John wrote:
> This used to be a hot topic long ago, but now seems to have become
> rather dormant. Does that mean that all NICs are pretty much
> commodity with all the good features (unaligned scatter/gather,
> etc), or does it just mean that machine performance
