On Friday 17 December 2004 09:35, Nico Meijer wrote: > I don't (and won't, unless forced) use Intel NICs, so I cannot speak > of them. I've had the very unpleasant experience of having had to > deal with a fierce network boost on a RealTek 8139 (don't ask...) in > a linux box. It meant the nic (and thus the machine) was unavailable > for 15 minutes. Other machines (which were not mine) which > experienced the boost, were humming along nicely. So thanks, I'll pay > $50 extra for the nic.
Is there anything more than high reliability in Intel/3COM NICs? Do they produce less interrupts? I've heard rumors that they do some packet processing themselves thus offloading CPU. Is that true? If so, where can I check that in kernel source? -- ...python is just now at 2.4? perl is 3.4 better! _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
