Craig McCormick wrote:
On a related subject and please forgive any ignorance on my part, how would the interrupt load compare, between a multi-port NIC and the same number of ports via individual single port NICs?
You don't really have something to compare with. The process is way different how the interrupts are handle in the bsd and bsd.mp kernel. It's driver related as far as I understand it. If Intel have better available documentations may be it would be handle better, but it is not the case here. That's what I understand anyway and I am sure if I am wrong, someone will put me back in strait line here.
If you can install multiple SK based cards for example and you are looking to get very efficient handling, you would be better served with that. But looking at your requirements, I may be wrong, but I would guess that even the Intel one would be fine for what you want to do. Doesn't look like each port would handle 50Mb/sec minimum or something like that. Your choice, but if you really want best of brand, stick with SK, if you need integrations, then in your case I would think Intel would be fine as well, just run bsd.mp to help.
Hope this help you anyway. Daniel
