On Monday 16 April 2007 10:27, Ronnie Garcia wrote:
> Chris C. a icrit :
> > I'm in the need to replace my two 100mbit fxp nic's in my firewall with a
> > 1000mbit one. The hardware is kinda old. (PIII)
> > I'm looking for an inexpensive but not bad (so I think no realtek chips)
> > nic. Have looked at sk and bge, but couldn't find any bge nics at my
> > local vendors. So... which driver to go? sk? em?
>
> Do you expect doing more than 100mbits with this hadware (with PF anabled)
> ? I'm maxing a P4 2.4Ghz at 40mbits, with a dual em, and a ~300 lines
> pf.conf

I am doing ~190mbit throughput with my current nics (PIII 1000MHz, CPU is at 
20% idle) with pf disabled, but I usually only have large nfs or ftp packets 
and some http and ssh traffic.

Greetings
Chris

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