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 (unaligned scatter/gather, > > etc), or does it just mean that machine performance has grown to > > the point where we don't care anymore? The hardware.html page > > tells me what may owrk, but not what may work WELL. The on-board > > NIC uses the fxp driver. Should I look for another card that uses > > the same driver? > > 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 MCP (nfe/nve) seem to be OK (although older nVidia > hardware had bugs); the Realtek (re/rl) and VIA (vr/vge) are at the bottom of > the heap, especially the older pre-gigabit hardware.
Thanks! That's perfect. I have a chance to buy a few Intel Pro 10/100 (fxp) cards. I guess I'll take it! Just curious, though - you don't mention 3Com cards one way or the other, yet there's a lot of them out there. Any comment on those? > Regards, > -- > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" -- John Lind [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
