--On 26 May 2005 12:11 +0200, Alexander Hall wrote:
Henning Brauer wrote:
* Philip Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-20 21:34]:
More Mhz. Not crappy nics, get xl,fxp,dc etc. Or maybe gigabit nics
like em(4).
xl is crap.
sk is probably the best you can get currently. and they are
amazingly cheap.
Can anyone comment on the fxp cards and driver?
Reliable and not too heavy on the CPU (some chips/revisions have
microcode to do interrupt mitigation in /etc/firmware, grep -3 CPUSAV
/sys/dev/ic/fxp.c for a list).
I don't think there's too much point buying single-port fxp nics new,
since they are usually about double the price of sk, but they are
sometimes available as a better option to rtl8139 on single-board
computers (e.g. Nexcom and Lex), and in some places they're the only
multiport nics easily found (for some value of 'easily').
