Hi,
I am testing various hardware processor, however I can't get one of each
type, money is not endless.
But I came across this statement for this Intel card:
Intel. EXPI9404PTL PCI-E PRO/1000 PT Quad Port Low Profile Server Adapter
"Additionally, the Intel PRO/1000 PT Quad Port Server Adapter enables
Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (Intel I/OAT) for faster I/O
processing on the new Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor-based servers."
I try to dig this up more to see if that true hardware based, or if
that's only with drivers from Intel on Windows servers only and it
appear so far that I can't prove either way yet.
Does anyone actually know if that true and if actually combining the two
as said above would in fact provide better throughput?
Meaning is that actually and really built-in the hardware of each device
regardless or OS and the statement is valid and true?
I am not buying that statement yet without drivers for the OS and most
likely wouldn't be true in OpenBSD, but I would very much welcome to be
wrong here!
I never seriously consider Xeon processor for routers yet, certainly not
multicore one for better performance. Not that it can't be used
obviously, but I always go for higher clock speed oppose to core on the
CPU and I don't see that changed anytime soon anyway for what I know.
So far best results appear to always be from Pentium D type single core
processors and Intel network cards.
Could the above combination be true and actually provide better output
in routing setup?
Many thanks for your time on this if you actually know more, I would
very much appreciate to know and truly understand this!
So far I put that into the marketing side more then into true life
experience.
Best,
Daniel
