Paul B. Henson [hen...@acm.org] wrote: > > I didn't find anything really conclusive. Evidentally the main > difference (http://supermicro.biz/support/faqs/faq.cfm?faq=11847) is > that the 82574L is a fully separate ethernet interface connected over > pcie, whereas the 82579LM is just a PHY that connects to the chipset > controller. > > I found a couple anecdotal accounts that the 82579LM works better (such > as http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5151718781), but that's under > windows, and might just be driver issues. > > I think I'm just going to set up the 82579LM for the high load initially > and see what happens; it will be easy enough to switch them around if I > want to try the other way later.
are you running 500k pps? probably not. it won't matter worth a damn.
